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Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) has delivered the Alberta Crop Reporting Program to clients since 1940.
The objective of the crop report is to capture timely information relating to crop production in Alberta during the current crop season. This is achieved through the use of surveys which collect data on moisture and crop conditions, progress of seeding and harvesting, insect and disease situation, yield potential and crop quality, etc. Data collected through the surveys, along with information from other sources will be used to compile the bi-weekly 2011 crop report, which presents provincial and regional summaries.
The delivery of the Alberta 2011 Crop Reporting Program is done in partnership with Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC), and members of the Association of Alberta Agricultural Fieldmen (AAAF).
The crop report is used by industry and other stakeholders for various purposes, including drought monitoring and forecasting of production insurance payments. It is also used to validate some of the Alberta crop estimates generated by Statistics Canada.
This year, the crop reporting series will consist of 12 bi-weekly reports, with six prepared by AFSC and six by ARD. The first crop report is scheduled for release on May 6, 2011 (see schedule below). A final report entitled “Alberta 2011 Crop Season in Review” is expected to be released by ARD in March, 2012. For more information, please contact James Wright at 403-782-8336 for the AFSC crop reports, and Chuanliang Su at 780-422-2887 for the ARD crop reports.
The assistance of industry and government stakeholders, particularly AFSC, AAAF and Alberta Ag-Info Centre is greatly appreciated.
Alberta 2011 Crop Report Release Schedule
| Crop Report Number | Release Date
(by 4:30 PM) | Prepared by | Contact Person | Telephone Number |
| 1 | May 6 | AFSC | James Wright | 403-782-8336 |
| 2 | May 25 | ARD | Chuanliang Su | 780-422-2887 |
| 3 | June 7 | AFSC | James Wright | 403-782-8336 |
| 4 | June 21 | ARD | Chuanliang Su | 780-422-2887 |
| 5 | July 6 | AFSC | James Wright | 403-782-8336 |
| 6 | July 19 | ARD | Chuanliang Su | 780-422-2887 |
| 7 | Aug 3 | AFSC | James Wright | 403-782-8336 |
| 8 | Aug 16 | ARD | Lukas Matejovsky | 780-422-2887 |
| 9 | Aug 30 | AFSC | James Wright | 403-782-8336 |
| 10 | Sept 13 | ARD | Lukas Matejovsky | 780-422-2887 |
| 11 | Sept 27 | AFSC | James Wright | 403-782-8336 |
| 12 | Oct 12 | ARD | Lukas Matejovsky | 780-422-2887 |
| Crop Season in Review | March 2012 | ARD | Lukas Matejovsky | 780-422-2887 |
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For more information about the content of this document, contact Ashan Shooshtarian.
This document is maintained by Rita Splawinski.
This information published to the web on April 21, 2011.
Last Reviewed/Revised on May 15, 2018.
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