Recent precipitation may have made a big difference to a number of struggling farms across the province, but in certain areas of Alberta any relief might come too late.
Agricultural disasters are declared by municipalities as a way to signal to provincial and federal governments that the conditions farmers are seeing in their respective regions have grown dire. They don't have any actual impact in being declared aside from serving as a sort of signal flare that additional support is needed.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith suggested that the province's crop insurance program would have sufficient funding to cover existing claims. For farmers especially in the southern region of the province, additional rainfall at this stage will have come too late, according to Danny LeRoy, an associate professor in economics at the University of Lethbridge who coordinates the university's agriculture studies program.
"We have also been advocating for the federal government to include regions impacted by drought in the federal livestock tax deferral provision," Reid wrote.
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