While the rest of us struggled through 2020, for the vast majority of local farmers it wasn't that bad a year.

Vulcan County Agricultural Services Manager, Kelly Malmberg, says in fact, is was a pretty good year.

"If anything's positive coming out of 2020, I think agriculture pretty much had a good year. Grain commodities are good. Canola prices are strong. Feed barley is doing very well."

Malmberg, says farmers in his neck of the woods didn't have much to complain about through most of the year.

"I saw a lot of optimism, especially out east of Vulcan. You know we've had some really dry years and some really decent yields. We are dry though, things did dry off this fall. The crop really came off without a hitch, most guys were done by the first part of October. You know we didn't have that wet period in the fall, but we are going into the spring dry."

Malmberg says commodity prices are sky high to finish 2020, which he says is making a big difference to local producers.

He also says it didn't hurt they had a wet spring which also gave the land a good shot of moisture which was badly needed.