Roughly two million to three million acres of cropland in Saskatchewan have been flooded this month and are unlikely to produce a crop this year, according to the latest report from Saskatchewan Agriculture.
While weather conditions showed some improvement during the week, many fields in the eastern part of the province continued to deal with excess moisture and flooding.
In those areas that weren’t flooded out, the majority of fall cereals were in the shot blade to dough stages of crop development as of July 7. Spring cereals were in the tillering to shot blade stages. The majority of pulse crops were in the vegetative to flowering stages and flax crops were mostly in the seedling to flowering crop stages. Most canola and mustard crops were in the seedling to flowering stages of development.
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Topsoil moisture conditions were improving for many areas. Across the province, topsoil moisture on cropland was rated as 34 percent surplus, 64 percent adequate and two percent short. Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture was rated as 25 percent surplus, 71 percent adequate, three percent short and one percent very short.
Warm weather in much of the province has helped with crop development and haying, said the report. Livestock producers had six percent of the hay crop cut and one percent baled or put into silage, according to the report.
Pasture conditions were rated as 27 percent excellent, 62 percent good, 10 percent fair and one percent poor.
