MANITOBA
East and Interlake
- Crops advancing rapidly due to high temperatures and dry conditions.
- Winter wheat being swathed.
- Spring cereals are headed and filling.
- Canola is podding. Some is within a week of swathing.
- Soybeans are podding. Corn is tasseling. Flax is finished flowering.
- Pastures are dry and need rain.
Central and southwest
- Moisture conditions vary from extremely dry to fairly good.
- Crops in low moisture areas deteriorating, resulting in early colour change.
- Winter wheat is swathed. Some is harvested with good yields.
- Cereals are headed, with some barley harvested.
- Canola is finished flowering. Soybeans are podding. Sunflowers, peas and flax are flowering.
- Insects generally at low numbers except for odd hot spots of bertha armyworms around Somerset and Pilot Mound.
- Soybean aphid numbers increasing. Fields should be monitored.
- Pastures are brown and need rain.
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Northwest
- Crops advancing rapidly. Some showers during the past week in the Swan River valley.
- Winter wheat harvest under way.
- Canola has finished flowering. Wheat is
headed.
- Wheat and canola crops are in very good condition.
- Some acres sprayed for high counts of bertha armyworms.
- Wheat midge spraying reported.
SASKATCHEWAN
Southeast and northeast
- Crops deteriorating due to high temperatures and/or moisture stress. Reasonable yields expected on fields with adequate soil moisture.
- Cereals are heading. Canola is podding. Flax and pulse crops are flowering.
- Continued reports of wheat midge, sawfly and bertha armyworms.
- Pastures are under stress and need rain.
Central
- Rapid crop development under way due to hot, dry weather.
- Drought damage showing on fields with lighter soils.
- Most wheat fields are headed. Canola has finished flowering. Flax is flowering. Pulses are
podding.
- Reports of wheat midge, sawfly, bertha armyworms and pea aphids.
- Pastures need rain.
Southwest
- Crops are furthest advanced in the province, but suffering from hot, dry weather.
- Cereals are heading. Canola and mustard near end of flowering. Peas, lentils and chickpeas are mostly podding.
- Reports of aphids in lentils.
- Pastures need rain.
Northwest
- Most crops are rated as good, but are deteriorating under heat and moisture stress, especially on lighter soils.
- Cereals are heading. Canola is podding.
- Peas suffering from heat flower blasting.
- Bertha armyworms reported.
- Pastures need rain.
ALBERTA
Southern
- Crops are deteriorating rapidly as hot, dry weather continued.
- Winter wheat near harvesting.
- Cereals are headed. Early canola and chickpeas are podding.
- Bertha armyworm counts remain high in the Vulcan and Strathmore areas.
- Pastures showing effects of grazing and drought.
Central, northeast and northwest
- Crop development rapid due to continued hot, dry weather.
- Crops in higher rainfall areas hanging on, except on lighter soils where deterioration is visible.
- Considerable drought and heat stress in lower rainfall areas.
- Cereals are heading. Canola is podding.
- Some isolated showers with hail reported.
- Bertha armyworms hatching in the
northeast.
- Pasture growth is slowing.
Peace River
- Central and northern Peace regions received one to four inches of rain.
- Crops in the north Peace look good.
- In the south Peace, rain will help fill the crops. Reduced yields still expected.
- Insect and disease pressure is low.
- Haying is complete.
- Pastures are in fair condition.
Conditions as of July 24
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