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Just as farmers in the praries are about to harvest their crop, unusual weather in southern Alberta forces farmers to scramble and hope for the best.
Snow and heavy downpour are to blame. Farmers in the prairies usually need 20 days of sunny, dry weather before they can harvest. Matt Sawyer, who owns a small family farm just north of Calgary, estimates that he was only able to get about 10% of his crop before stormy weather occurred.
Sawyer says that he will just have to hope for the best and he might be able to scavenge some quality crops this year, that is if the weather doesn’t persist.
Farmers will have to resort to crop dryers. The only problem with this is that most farmers don’t own these and if they would like to purchase one the Office of the Fire Commissioner will most likely not be able to approve the use of them before the crop soils.
The past year has been frustrating for farmers with flooding and drought throughout the year and now a wet harvest adds to a very difficult situation.