MANITOBA
- Frost hit areas south of Dauphin, including Brandon and Melita. Patchy frost was also reported in the Red River Valley.
- Crop damage is highly variable in central regions, with corn, field beans, soybeans, flowering canola and buckwheat among hardest hit.
- Winter wheat is being combined between showers at Neepawa, where it is yielding 60 bushels per acre.
- Souris was affected by frost, with millet turning black and corn hit hard.
- Pastures look good and second-cut haying is under way. Potato harvest is also progressing.
- Crop development is slow in the Interlake, where lodging is also a concern. Only 10 percent of the cereal crop is ripe and swathing is under way.
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SASKATCHEWAN
- Frost was widespread across Saskatchewan, but areas west of Kindersley, Moose Jaw, Swift Current and Assiniboia escaped it.
- Early barley, canola and wheat are turning at Elfros, where baling and silage are completed. Aphids are showing up in canaryseed in Foam Lake.
- Grasshoppers and disease are reported in Springside, where peas are being desiccated and swathing has started. Cool nights and risks of frost are common.
- Wheat is at the mid-hard dough stage with some colour change and barley is at the hard dough stage with some colour change. Flax is in good shape.
- Flax bollworm is reported in the bolls and aphids are present at Lewvan. Grasshoppers are damaging cereal leaves, canola pods and lentils.
- Cereals are in the soft dough stage, early cereals are being swathed and lentils are turning.
ALBERTA
- Severe hailstorms caused damage in parts of central Alberta, with heavy rain slowing haying.
n Hail damaged several hundred acres of crop at Pincher Creek, where harvest is under way.
- Yields are excellent to above average at Coaldale, where field peas and some early canola have been harvested.
- Good heat and sunshine have bolstered crop development.
- Silage operations are winding down at Red Deer, where corn is late and potatoes have been top killed.
- Pastures are good at Rocky Mountain House, where strong yields are expected.
- Thrips were reported in canola and sclerotinia were observed in wheat at Stony Plain.
- Canola swathing and haying are under way at Peace River, where sub-surface moisture is rated poor to fair.
- Aphids are reported around Mayerthorpe.
- Canola and barley are turning colour at Westlock and swathing is expected to begin within the week.
Conditions as of Aug. 23, 2994
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