While droughts and floods are as old as time, there has been a sharp increase in their frequency here in Canada and around the world - to negative effect.

According to a Government of Canada agroclimate report, in 2017 the southern regions between British Columbia and the southeastern Prairies faced their driest summer in 70 years, while that spring a portion of the northern agricultural region in Alberta and Saskatchewan experienced extreme moisture conditions that caused substantial delays in spring seeding, crop development, and harvesting.