After several difficult harvests, a new grain dryer grant program is available to help Alberta farmers upgrade their grain handling systems.

As of Dec. 3, 2019, 89.7 per cent of all crops had been harvested across the province, which is down from both 2018 and 2017.

Alberta's most important feed crop for beef production will benefit from warmer temperatures and increased humidity in the future, the University of Alberta research says.

Central Alberta farmers come together to harvest a crop to raise money for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and help end hunger in developing countries

The town of Taber celebrated the opening of its 44th Cornfest Thursday afternoon, but corn will be in shorter supply than usual after a severe thunderstorm on Aug. 6 decimated the crop. 

In the Edmonton region, 85 per cent of hay that would normally be harvested by this time of year is still in the fields because of the wet weather.

A colder-than-usual spring may have thrown a wrench into Taber corn farmers' dreams of early sales, but one farmer says they aren't actually that far behind schedule.

"The farmer said it wouldn't have been worth the gas to try and harvest what grew in his area. So he didn't make any bales."

A coalition of farm groups says conditions at this point in the fall are worse than in 2016, when weather caused many crops to remain unharvested.

Japan has suspended its tender and sale of wheat from Canada after grain containing a genetically modified trait was discovered last summer in southern Alberta.