Alberta producers with cropland affected by the heavy spring rains will soon have access to the recently-announced $450 million federal-provincial funded AgriRecovery relief program, intended to help farmers take immediate steps to protect and restore damaged cropland.
Amounting to $30 per acre in assistance for affected cropland, Alberta’s slice of the eligible payout to producers is $42.1 million, and will be administered through the Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC).

The M.D. of Taber is issuing several claims under the Southern Alberta Disaster Recovery Program for its citizens, due to the heavy rains earlier this year, and the M.D. is making a claim for itself.
M.D. infrastructure has felt the wrath of Mother Nature with damage estimates anywhere between $500,000 to $700,000, with final numbers likely to be finalized in a couple of weeks.
“We have some significant claims, including the bridge that was lost along with road gravel,” said Derrick Krizsan, municipal administrator for the M.D. of Taber, referring to the bridge on Township Road 14-4, just east of Highway 36 along the Bow River. “We have ongoing pumping costs. We have a number of township and range roads in the M.D. that are continuing to be barricaded because of water over the road.”

The M.D. of Taber turned in another solid performance last week in Brooks at the Southern Alberta Summer Games.
In terms of overall point count, Taber was second with 1,979.5 points, behind the host County of Newell, which led everyone by a large margin, with 2,994.5 points. The County of Cypress/Redcliff was third with 1,586 points, while the City of Medicine Hat was fourth at 1,585 points.
Newell athletes brought home 304 medals, while Taber was second with 178, followed by 143 for the City of Lethbridge, 141 for Medicine Hat and 112 for Cypress. In all, M.D. of Taber athletes brought home 72 gold medals, 55 silvers and 51 bronze medals.

The Taber/Vauxhall RCMP attended the scene of a single-vehicle collision at approximately 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 9.
A 2006 International MA0025 truck was being operated by a 26-year-old male from Lethbridge. As the vehicle turned east on to Township Road 11-0 from Highway 36, the driver lost control and the vehicle rolled onto its roof.
At the time, the vehicle was hauling approximately 1,200 gallons of liquid nitrogen, which mostly spilled into the ditch and on the roadway.