{"id":11973,"date":"2025-07-21T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11973\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T03:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:21:09","slug":"two-northern-alberta-municipalities-declare-agricultural-disasters-amid-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11973\/","title":{"rendered":"Two northern Alberta municipalities declare agricultural disasters amid drought"},"content":{"rendered":"

The exceptional drought conditions are leaving ranchers concerned they won’t have enough hay to feed their livestock, said Smith.<\/p>\n

“I should be getting 3,000 bales a year, and I’m probably going to hit 500 [bales this year]. Last year, there were about 1,000. This is about as severe as it’s gonna get for us.”<\/p>\n

Smith said the dry conditions are being compounded by throngs of grasshoppers that are devouring any new plant growth in the area.<\/p>\n

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“Now, we have these grasshoppers, and they’re just flying right now, and they are like a combine going across the field. They’re just sucking up any quality (hay) that we have.”<\/p>\n

\"Assessment<\/p>\n

\nThis assessment map shows that most of the agricultural land in the M.D. of Greenview is rated as “poor” due to persistent drought conditions. (M.D. of Greenview)<\/p>\n

Tyler Olsen, the reeve for the M.D. of Greenview, said he is very concerned that the local drought conditions will result in a serious lack of feed for the region’s cattle herds through the fall and winter. As a result, he said these conditions could force ranchers to preemptively liquidate their herds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exceptional drought conditions are leaving ranchers concerned they won’t have enough hay to feed their livestock, said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[901,49,48,6091,295,11423,66],"class_list":["post-11973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-prairies","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}