Many farmers in Alberta are trying to salvage the little crop they've managed to grow amid an ongoing heat wave. Wayne Schneider, proprietor of Great West Farms in Nisku and a regional director with the Alberta Canola Producers Commission, said the crops are nearing the end of their life cycle of what they can actually produce. Bleak yearIn southern Alberta, some farmers have already started harvesting, including Kevin Serfas, co-owner of Serfas Farms Ltd. in Turin, northeast of Lethbridge. His farm normally yields 75 bushels an acre of cereal grains; this year they're combining five to nine an acre. Serfas, who is chair of the Alberta Canola Producers Commission, said he hasn't discerned the benefits from a provincial/federal AgriRecovery program for crop farmers.

Source: CBC News August 03, 2021 14:00 UTC