Agri-Coaches Corner/Crop Report

MANITOBA

Dry conditions continue, resulting in premature ripening and much lower yield potential than normal. Pastures need rain.

East and Interlake

Winter wheat harvest is nearing completion.
Soybeans are podding. There are reports of soybean aphids, with some fields being sprayed and reports of anthracnose in edible beans.
In the Interlake, early sown barley, canola and oats are being swathed.

Central

Winter wheat harvest is nearing completion, with yields ranging from 40-90 bushels an acre.

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Fall rye yields range from 35 to 60 bu. an acre and barley ranges from 35-85 bu. an acre.
Hard red spring wheat and peas are being swathed.
Canola is rapidly turning and being swathed.
Flax is podding to turning and sunflowers are wilting.
Bertha armyworms are reported at Russell and Somerset.

Southwest and northwest

Winter wheat and fall rye harvests are nearing completion with below average yields. Swathing of all crops is well underway.
Early sown wheat and barley are now swathed, with some combining.
Bertha armyworms are reported from Swan River to Roblin.

SASKATCHEWAN

Warm weather continues to advance crops and reduce yield potential in areas without showers.

Southeast

Winter wheat harvest is underway with good yields.
Spring wheat and durum are ripening quickly. Lentils are being desiccated. Chickpeas are still green.
Swathing has begun on field peas, while barley, canola and mustard are ripening.
Bertha armyworms are highly variable and being sprayed.
Heavy aphids are reported in most crops.
Anthracnose is reported in lentils. Aschochyta infections are heavy in some chickpea fields.

Northeast

Wheat is ripening and yield potential looks good. Canola is podding and 10 or more days from swathing. Barley and oats are starting to turn.
Wheat has lots of tan spot and septoria.
Canola is showing sclerotinia damage. Wheat midge and stem maggot damage are also present in crops.
Bertha armyworms are quite variable from field to field around Rosthern, Birch Hills, Tisdale and Preece-ville.

Central

Some winter wheat has been harvested but most fields are a week to 10 days from harvest.
Wheat is headed, early barley is being swathed, flax is podding and peas are maturing rapidly with some swathed.
Some lentil fields are showing anthracnose and root rot damage.
There is considerable sawfly and wheat midge damage in wheat.
There is spraying for bertha armyworms.

Southwest and northwest

Winter wheat harvest is 60 percent complete with yields of 40-45 bu. an acre.
Peas and lentils are about 50 percent complete, with yields of 25-50 for peas and 15-25 for lentils.
Chickpeas are fully podded and ripening.
Early canola is swathed with an estimated yield of 30 bu. an acre, while late sown canola is podded and has only 10-15 bu.

In the northwest, recent cool temperatures and scattered showers have slowed crop development.
Many cereal, pea and canola fields are turning colour.
Some pea fields have been swathed or desiccated.
Bertha armyworms are reported in high numbers in some areas.

ALBERTA

Cooler temperatures slowed plant development.

South

Winter wheat and early dryland barley are coming off with lower yields than expected.
Early wheat fields are turning. Barley silaging is nearing completion. Pea harvest has started, with average yields.
Early canola is turning.
Silage corn, dry beans and sugar beets are looking very good.
Bertha armyworms are reported at Milo and Vulcan.
Lygus bugs plentiful and need spraying in High River and Vulcan canola.
Pastures are burning up.

Central

Crops are filling nicely and most fields are starting to turn.
Swathing has begun on early sown crops.

Scattered hail damage was reported near Red Deer.
Pastures are recovering with the rain.

Northeast and northwest

Crops are two weeks ahead of normal.
Peas are being desiccated.
Canola fields are quite variable due to planting dates.
Wheat is in the soft dough stage. Barley is in the milk to soft dough stage.
Bertha armyworms are reported at Mannville, Vermilion, Paradise Valley and Wainwright.
Silaging is continuing.
Pastures are rated fair to good.