Harvest tour on sugar beet farming in Alberta
On October 16 the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers held their annual harvest tour offering insights into southern Alberta agriculture. The ASBG administers quotas for crop growth and negotiates pricing with Lantic Inc. Growers form a 28,000 acre quota based on the factory’s capacity to store and process beets.
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Taber residents reject city status bid in survey
A Taber survey of 1,090 residents shows 70 percent oppose town status becoming a city while 27 percent back it. Concerns focus on preserving small town identity, tax costs, safety, and whether services can scale, with calls for transparent, community driven decision making.
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Petition seeks new Hwy 3 access to Grassy Lake
Retiree David Woodruff, bus driver, collects signatures for a provincial plan to add an east to west exit lane at Range Road 132 near the Viterra elevator on Hwy 38 and an entrance merge on 13 5 to maintain traffic flow. He warns bypassing Grassy Lake could hurt local businesses while easing highway speed through the area.
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