Agri-Coaches Corner/Crop Report

MANITOBA

East

Warmer weather accelerated crop growth. Crop potential is good but excess moisture is starting to reduce yield and quality.
Winter wheat is headed, spring cereals approached the four to five leaf stage.
Herbicide applications finishing while fungicide treatments are underway between rains.
Low spots are a writeoff and many fields show moisture stress.
First cut of hay is complete in some areas.

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Spraying is nearly complete, with cereals at flag leaf stage and canola poised to bloom.
Warm season crops are delayed and need heat.
Flea beetle and sunflower beetle damage reported.

Crops accelerated last week and conditions are good but cool conditions in May and early June have delayed crops.
Some northern areas have a lot of fallow due to excess moisture and inability to get on the land.
Wheat is in the five leaf, two tiller stage; canola in the cotyledon to five leaf stage.
Lots of disease on wheat is reported, with some signs of flea beetle damage to canola.
Haying has started.

Herbicide applications are half done in some wet areas, with strong weed growth.
Disease pressure is increasing and fungicide applications are underway.

SASKATCHEWAN

South

Warm, humid weather provided excellent conditions for crop growth and disease.
Tan spot is reported in wheat, anthracnose in lentils and ascochyta in chickpeas.
Spring cereals are in the three to six leaf stage, with some early crops in the boot. Winter wheat is in the pre-flag to early heading stage.
Canola is in the two to six leaf cabbaging stage and pulses are at the seven to 10 node stage.
Gophers are a major problem in crops, forages and pastures.

Moisture is variable, with excess rain and hail stressing some crops.
Crops are good to very good but behind.
Spring cereals are in the two to five leaf stage, canola in the cotyledon to four leaf stage and pulses in the five to 10 node stage.
Winter wheat is in the flag leaf and being treated for diseases.

Crop conditions are good but growth is slow, especially in canola.
Temperatures have been average with good to excess moisture.
Excess spring moisture in the northeast will leave fields unseeded.
Cereals are in the three to five leaf stage and canola is in the cotyledon to six leaf stage.
Lots of tan spot and wild oat problems reported.

ALBERTA

South

Crop conditions and moisture availability are good to very good.
In wet areas, late seeding was completed with broadcast equipment and harrow packing.
Early canola is bolting, early cereals are in the flag stage.
Corn looks good but is short and peas are near bloom. Potatoes and sugar beets are strong. Winter wheat is in flag to head emergence.
Forage crops are good with the first alfalfa cut.
Pea weevils are widespread and cabbage seedpod weevil populations are high.
Disease is heavy in winter wheat and barley scald is starting to show.

Conditions in western areas improved but areas west of Highway 2 are suffering from excess moisture and cool conditions.
Herbicide spraying is underway.
Hay crops look good and early seeded crops are in good shape.

Wet, cool conditions prevailed. Crops need heat.
Low spots are flooded or not seeded in some areas.
Early cereals are in the four to six leaf tillering stage, canola two leaf to pre-bolting and peas in the four to five node stages.

Crops look good in the south Peace but crops need rain and heat.
Cereals are in the three to four leaf and canola in the two to three leaf stages.
In the north Peace, crop prospects have decreased from very good to good as a result of frost.
Early canola is bolting, wheat and barley are tillering and peas are in the six to eight node stage.
Weed growth is heavy where there was early moisture.
Alfalfa has stalled due to frost,

with little moisture to support hay growth.

Conditions as of June 18.

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