The sweet, savoury season is already nearing an end for Johnson Taber Corn thanks to a wicked hail storm earlier this month.

One of the five sons on the family run operation, Tom Johnson, says they lost about 50 per cent of their crop to the storm on Tuesday, August 6 which hit every stalk.

"Usually hail just goes in strips, but this storm was about a 5 kilometre span," he said. "It was a 150 kilometre [per hour] wind, and took out pretty much everything it went through."

Johnson says they'll be selling corn until the end of the week, then they'll have to play it by ear.

"Just see how everything matures and the overall damage it received from the hail storm," he explained.

Johnson says they lost a bunch of their super sweet corn, but have a lot of the peaches and cream variety.

The High River Johnson Taber Corn truck is selling cobs out of the Heritage Inn parking lot in High River, and Johnson says trucks across Southern and Central Alberta are open everyday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., or until supplies run out.

He adds, the farm is grateful for all the support they've received this year following the hail storm, and they're hoping they won't take another hit from Mother Nature next year.

 

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