MANITOBA
Interlake-southeast
- Heavy rain and flooding contribute to crop deterioration and delayed haying.
- Heat and humidity hurt barley and canola.
- Cereals are heading while canola has finished flowering.
- Many crops will likely become greenfeed to compensate for anticipated shortages in hay.
Central
- Some crops are starting to recover from excess moisture, but hay quality is poor.
- Edible beans and soybeans are flowering, corn is tasseling and cereals are filling.
- Tan spot, septoria and fusarium are showing up in wheat.
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Southwest
- Hot, humid weather.
- Cereals are heading, canola and pulses finishing flowering and flax 80 percent flowering.
- Disease pressures are high in cereals and pulses, with leaf rust in wheat.
- Haying is half done, with above average yields and poor quality.
Northwest
- Yield potential for cereals is rated good, while considered poor to fair for canola.
- Haying is variable with above average yields and declining quality.
- Insects sighted include painted lady larvae in borage, diamondback moths and bertha armyworms.
SASKATCHEWAN
East-central
- More rain needed.
- Cereals are heading to filling, canola is podding and flax is 80 percent flowering.
- Aphids in field peas, with painted lady larvae and diamondback moths reported.
- Disease pressure is high, with leaf rust and tan spot in wheat and net blotch and ascochyta reported in field peas.
- Haying is well advanced, with high yields and quality expected. Pastures in good shape.
Southeast
- Cereals filling, flax finished flowering.
- Insects sighted include diamondback moths, bertha armyworms, aphids, wheat midge, lygus bugs and flea beetles.
- Hay yields are high with good quality. Pastures are rated good to very good.
Southwest
- Hot, sunny weather has advanced crops. Moisture stress has occurred in mustard, barley and canola.
- Cereals are filling, with good yield potential. Canola is podding and filling, with reasonable yields expected. Flax has finished flowering with average yields expected.
- Areas south of Swift Current received damage to buildings, vehicles and crops in wind and hailstorms.
West-central
- Hot and humid weather is reported with thunderstorms and hail around Blaine Lake.
- Crops expected to produce high yields.Wheat late in development. Canola and pulses further along.
- Tan spot reported in wheat, net blotch in barley and ascochyta blight in pulses.
- Diamondback moths abundant in canola.
- Twenty percent of the zone needs rain.
Northwest
- Crops look good to excellent.
- Grasshoppers, bertha armyworms and flea beetles are reported.
- Haying is well advanced, with good yields and quality. Pastures are very good.
ALBERTA
Peace River
- Crops’ yield potential is average to above average with hot humid weather reported.
- Cereals are heading to filling and canola is finishing flowering.
Northwest-Edmonton
- Crops are good to excellent, with high yield potential.
- Disease is low to moderate in cereals, but moderate to high in canola in sclerotinia.
- Haying is well under way, with good yields but reasonable quality. Pastures are very good.
Northeast
- Rain and thunderstorms caused lodging.
- Crops rated good to excellent.
- Cereals are filling and canola has finished flowering, while pulses are flowering.
- Diseases are increasing in cereals, with tan spot and septoria. Scald and net blotch are reported in barley, with a moderate potential for sclerotinia in canola.
- Haying is complete, with moderate quality and reasonable yields reported.
Central
- Scattered hail damage reported.
- Crops are good to excellent, with high yield potential.
- Cereals are filling, canola is podding to flowering and peas are flowering.
- Cereal diseases are prevalent in barley and wheat, with the potential for sclerotinia.
South-Calgary
- Late-flowering canola is experiencing heat stress. Some crops are recovering from excess moisture and developing secondary branches.
- Cereals on light land are ripening and expected to produce good yields.
- Canola yields will be fair to good. Silage making is under way.
- First cut hay is complete, with reasonable yield and quality. Pastures in good condition.
- Insect pressure is light, with some diamondback larvae.
South
- Crops good, average cereal yields expected.
- Canola is recovering from moisture stress.
- Diseases are moderate to high in pulses and cereals.
- Corn is advancing rapidly, with tasseling beginning. Yields are expected to be very good.
Conditions as of July 25
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