Specialty Crops
In 2023, 28,000 irrigated acres were used to grow this specialty crop in the SMRID; placing second behind spuds.
What are Dry Beans
What is the amalgamation of TID and SMRID?
This Ministry oversees policies, legislation, regulations and services necessary for Alberta’s agriculture and food sectors
What is the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation?
Not a rebuttal, this north-flowing river is the longest in the world
What is the Nile?
Comprised of over 40 countries, this Ocean's "rim" touches several continents including Oceania, Asia, North America and South America
What is the Pacific Ocean, or Pacific Rim?
What is Saffron?
This body of water had its 15 minutes of fame as a filming location for the 2014 blockbuster film, "Interstellar"
What is Chin Reservoir?
Enacted in 2000, this act enables the establishment of irrigation districts in Alberta and describes the structure, governance, powers, and duties for the formation and operations of irrigation districts.
What is the Irrigation Districts Act? (or IDA)
Aptly named the pink river dolphin, the rose-coloured aquatic mammal resides in this South American river which boasts an average discharge of about 215,000–230,000 m3/s
What is the Amazon River?
The depth of the deepest point here is more than 2 km (1.2 mi) farther from sea level than the peak of Mount Everest.
What is Mariana's Trench?
Known to scientists as "Nepeta cataria", SMRID grew the lion's share (all 180 acres worth) of this specialty crop in Alberta in 2023.
What is Catnip?
Commissioned in 1951, this Province-owned reservoir is a hot-spot for power boating and summer recreation
What is the St. Mary Reservoir
Signed in 1909, the Boundary Waters Treaty established this governing body to oversee the use of the waters shared by Canada and the United States
What is the International Joint Commission (or IJC)?
Deemed unsafe for swimming or bathing since 1923, the river underwent a $1.5 billion project to clean up the waters ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games
What is the Siene River?
Once rippling with rivers and ponds, most of the remaining water on this planet in the solar system is now is frozen in the ice caps or trapped beneath the soil.
What is Mars?
Production of this far-out crop's close relative has increased by over 2000 acres across the Province since 2013.
What is Hemp?
Significant flooding from major rainfall and snowmelt events in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2018 prompted various parties in southern Alberta to come together to find solutions to reduce the impact of flooding, resulting in this ongoing project within the SMRID
Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate changed deemed this Provincial process sufficient to oversee the proposed modernization and Expansion of Chin Reservoir
What is an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)?
Set in rural Mississippi in 1937, this 2000 satirical comedy-drama musical film includes the Appalachian ballad, "Down to the River to Pray"
What is, "O Brother Where Art Thou"?
What is the Arctic Ocean?
You reap what you mow: Western Irrigation District grew 65% of this non-edible specialty crop in 2023.
What is Turf, sod or grass?
This Mormon pioneer who brought his irrigation experience from Utah helped establish the Town of Cardston and utilized/built several minor irrigation ditches
Who is Charles Ora Card?
In 2024, AESO's mandate to reduce the amount of electricity generated across Alberta caused Irrican to experience reduced production due to a directive known as this
What is curtailment?
Operation Plunder was a military operation to cross this major European river in WWII during the Western Allied invasion of Germany in 1945
What is the Rhine River?
This landlocked salt lake keeps swimmers afloat thanks to its high salt and mineral content
What is the Dead Sea?