Prairie farmers hope for 'normal' season after volatile couple of years

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CALGARY — Third\u002Dgeneration farmer Greg Sears is more than ready for a crop year without any curve balls in it.

While it will likely still be a few weeks before his fields dry up enough to start seeding his wheat, barley and canola, Sears said he feels a mix of hope and “nervous anticipation.”

But the memory of 2021’s record-breaking heat and drought in Western Canada weighs on many farmers who experienced it.Article content “And we didn’t get the big, big snows that we typically get in February or March. It was pretty sparse.”Article content

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