While the beginning of the growing season looked very promising for farmers planting their crops, mother nature has had other ideas.

With the big hail storm that hit Rocky View County on July 30, many farmers lost their prized crops.

Harry Brook, crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture, said hail storms are very localized so while some may have lost their crops, others did not.

"Those guys that got hit, that was devastating. But for the rest, crop conditions should be better than average. They should have some pretty good crops come in, if we can avoid anymore of the white combine."

While it is very discouraging to lose a crop to the weather, Brook added that farmers can still use their crops for something, including using it as a feed source for livestock.

July's large amount of rain has also been presenting a challenge to the farmers.

"It's a real challenge trying to get that stuff cut and harvested. If you're harvesting to the West and it's leaning to the West, you're going to lose a lot of heads because you're cutting them off. It makes it harder during harvesting time, too," said Brook.

Brook added that harvesting time won't be pretty this year.

"The real problem comes that you continue to have a lot of humidity, a lot of moisture right through into harvest. Then you never get the crop dry and then it comes to be an issue of when do you harvest it?"