Friday, February 26, 2021 - Prairie Post West - 23
Lantic Sugar says Taber operations should return to normal this year
The statement was part of the company’s recent first-quarter earnings release. Through the company’s entire production network,
ALBERTA NEWSPAPER GROUP Lantic Sugar expects operations at its Taber sugar
beet plant to return to normal output in 2021, but could incur higher production costs as it adheres to pandemic safety protocols.
sales volume increased 1.1 per cent in late 2020, as consumer demand rose to more than offset drops in the food service industry. Volumes also rose, as the company met new export quotas of beet sugar sales to the United States under
the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement that came into effect last summer. That will involve 14,600 tonnes in 2021 from the
Taber facility, where the company expects a return to “normal operating conditions” following a near 50 per cent crop loss from an early freeze up in late 2019. The recent harvest should provide 128,000 metric tonnes of refined sugar, Lantic said.
Agricultural moisture situation for February looks promising
ALBERTA AGRICULTURE During the first half of winter,
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most of the province enjoyed well above average temperatures that accompanied below normal precip- itation accumulations and lower than average snow pack develop- ment. This was in sharp contrast to the wet weather patterns that dominated the growing season and hampered agriculture operations throughout many parts of the prov- ince last year. The warm, dry trend that persisted since at least the start of winter ended abruptly across most of the province during the fourth week in January with cold arctic air flooding in from the north, that looks poised to persist for at least another 10-days. 90-Day temperature departures as of January 19, 2021 (Map 1) Following a cold snap in mid-October, temperatures climbed above seasonal and remained consistently above normal well into mid-January. For many areas, this was a relatively rare event expe- rienced on average less than once in 50-years. During the last week of January a major weather pattern shift occurred
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of the south eastern Peace Region. However, there is still plenty of winter left and signif- icant snow accumulations may still occur. 180-Day precipitation accumulations relative to normal as of February 2 2021 (Map 3)
Generally in mid to late August of 2020, many areas shifted away from a wetter pattern to a much drier one. This allowed parts of the pre- viously wet North West to dry significantly with some areas experiencing precipitation accumulations on the order of 1 in 50-year lows. Simi-
as most of the province was plunged into the winter deep freeze. On Janu- ary 24, temperatures hit -42°C at two stations 70 km west of Fort McMurray and - 40.2°C at the Beaver Dam AGCM station, just 30 km south of Cold Lake. Snowpacks relative to long term nor- mal as of February 2 2021 (Map 2) A warm start to winter and below
normal precipitation accumulations led to well below normal snowpacks for
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this time of year throughout most of the province. This is particularly true of the western parts of the North West region, where warm weather all but melted out the snowpack by early January. Currently snowpacks range from less than once in 50- year lows across parts of the North West out towards Edson, with several areas showing 12 to 25 year lows along a wide band stretching as far east as Lloydminster, as well as through parts
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