[Robinhood02]

LOL by the end of Oct we usually have more than a foot of snow, we like to be done by mid sept because after that it could start snowing anytime, yes the land rolls quite a bit so the expensive combines have laser sights that read the ground height at each end of the header and auto tilt the header so that you don't hit the ground. we run 30-40 foot straight cut headers, most of us do straight cut now a days so we don't have to swath (windrow) our crops, except for canola. Not one person irrigates up here, we just put it in the ground and let the rain do the work but most of us do zero till to conserve spring moisture in the ground, Alberta is about 1200 miles long and 450 miles wide so it is a big province and the further you get south is where the irrigation is, just not up here. I live close to the oldest town in western canada called Fort Vermilion it is about 250 yrs old and was first founded during the Hudsons Bay fur trade. my mother is from North Dakota and my dad from here.