Trying to get the last potatoes in. pic.twitter.com/JstBTwptLd
— Lucas Bennen (@LucasBennen) October 9, 2018
Some Alberta farmers are concerned about their crops after a late-summer snowfall blanketed parts of the province, with more flurries expected in the forecast.
Early season snow can squash crops that grow upright, like wheat and barley, make them harder to harvest and decimate their quality, leaving farmers with a less valuable product.
Greg Sears has been growing canola, wheat, barley and peas just north of Grande Prairie, Alta., for about a decade and recently had about 15 centimetres of snow covered his crops, pushing down his cereal and canola and freezing anything that wasn’t fully mature yet.
“It’s just going to be a long, slow harvest from here on in — even if we do get some really nice weather,” he said.