US tracker manufacturer FTC Solar has launched an automated 80 degree hail stow angle for its flagship 1P Pioneer tracker.| PV Tech
Reading Time: 4minutes Exotic animal farm loses beloved camel and pony to huge hail storm that gripped the Brooks, Alta. area as a community member starts a fundraiser to help the family recover from the financial and emotional damage. The post Volunteers help exotic animal farm rebuild appeared first on Alberta Farmer Express.| Alberta Farmer ExpressLatest News Stories - Alberta Farmer Express
Reading Time: 2minutes The numbers are still coming in for the cost of the damage caused by a huge hail storm that hit various areas of Alberta Aug. 20. The post Massive storm in southeastern Alberta causes significant damage to crops and reported deaths of livestock appeared first on Alberta Farmer Express.| Alberta Farmer ExpressLatest News Stories - Alberta Farmer Express
The growth points of alfalfa and red clover are at the tips of the stems, so management recommendations depend on the amount of damage:Less than 50% growth points removed: wait to cut until planned harvest maturity. Expect reduced yields.| Field Crop News
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More than 1,600 Prairie farms were hit by hail between July 29 and August 11, with the heaviest damage in Alberta, according to the Canadian Crop Hail Association (CCHC).| Farmtario
I harvested a few days with Chiroubles-based natural winemaker Gilles Paris back in 2015. It was a disorienting experience. It was the hottest weekend of a heat-wave year, which did no favors for the ambience inside Paris' windowless white transport vans. I also could rarely discern whose vines we were in. In each new parcel I'd ask, "Are these your vines?" and Paris, shaking his head, would inform me they were those of a neighbor who sold to the cave cooperative, or that they belonged instea...| not drinking poison in paris
Farmers in Western Canada can breathe easy. Rains across most of the Prairies this spring have gone a long way toward recharging groundwater levels and| Grainews
