Source: Lee Hart, GrainNews.ca, January 23, 2018
With low soil moisture reserves most Prairie farmers are hoping for snow and rain early this year
It would be a hard sell to convince Robert Semeniuk of Smoky Lake, Alta., that 2017 was a very dry growing season. He is the only participant in the January 2018 Farmer Panel who, on his northeast Alberta farm, had to fight with too much moisture from seeding through to harvest.
In many other regions across Western Canada it was a very consistent and contrary report on the past year — for most it was just too dry.
