Alberta harvest

• Severe drought in Alberta brings on early harvest

  Combines are firing up across the Prairies as abnormally hot weather and little moisture is causing crops to mature more quickly than normal.

  Economy

  Jul 29
• Proceeds of Leduc County harvest donated in effort to end world hunger

  A special harvest took place south of Edmonton last week, with community members coming together in an effort to end world hunger.

  Features

  Oct 12, 2020
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• Planting project grows nearly 100K pounds of potatoes for Edmonton’s Food Bank

  David Benjestorf started the Pandemic Planting Project to provide food for those in need.

  Canada

  Oct 3, 2020
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• 2020 harvest season lives up to low expectations on some northern Alberta fields

  After such a wet summer, expectations were low for this year's harvest on some northern Alberta fields.

  Environment

  Sep 22, 2020
• Alberta farmers seeding and hoping to get last year’s crop off

  Some Alberta farmers are seeding and hoping the rain stays away, while others are still just trying to get last year's crop off.

  Canada

  May 19, 2020
• $2M grain dryer program launched to help farmers affected by terrible harvest

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

  Canada

  Feb 10, 2020
• 90% of crops across Alberta harvested in ‘complicated’ and ‘halted’ season

  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.

  Canada

  Jan 5, 2020
• Alberta community declares agricultural disaster amid unsuccessful harvest

  The County of St. Paul declared state of agricultural disaster, saying that as of Nov. 26, 35 per cent of crops were still in the ground.

  Weather

  Nov 28, 2019
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• ‘Harvest from hell’: Alberta farmers demanding action from government

  Alberta farmers are asking for aggressive action from the government on serious economic hardships following this year’s ‘harvest from hell’.

  Environment

  Nov 14, 2019
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• Alberta farmers continue to battle weather

  Farmers across the province continue to battle the weather to finish up harvest.

  Canada

  Oct 25, 2019