From where I live its north western Alberta about 1 hr drive to BC and 4 hr to NWT the summers are fairly wet and we grow all major grains except corn and pastures are mostly tame grasses timothy,brome,crested wheat grass and hay is mostly alfalfa grass mix.We have a long growing season because of the long hours of daylight almost 24 hrs in june/july gets pretty hot in summers +30 sometimes more, last few years have been wet but had a bad drought for a few years before and the lakes and dugouts are still low but are shaping up to fill this year so far. Most of the land was covered in trees and had to be brushed to make crop land it was mainly homestead land which means the govt. would give you land cheap if you would make improvements had to clear 40 ac a year to qualify lots got their land one or two generations back from me. They just opened up some more homestead last year about 100 mi north of me.
