Ideal Weather Conditions for Harvesting

Ideal Weather Conditions for Harvesting

(Main Photo) Combines were busy picking up swaths of barley seven kilometres west of Vegreville on Sept. 10. (Inset) A hopper full of barley being transferred into a truck belonging to Achtymichuk Farms Ltd. on Sept. 10 near Vegreville. (Michelle Pinon/Photos)

Michelle Pinon

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Weather conditions were ideal for farmers on Sept. 10 with temperatures hovering around 27 degrees Celsius.

Two combines were going full tilt seven kilometres west of Vegreville around 5:30 pm The combines are property of Achtymichuk Farms Ltd. They were harvesting a crop of barley on three-quarter sections of land in the area.

Darren, who farms with his brother and father, said they have completed about 10 percent of their harvest.