MANITOBA
East
- Crops damaged by rain and wind created ideal disease conditions. Warm temperatures caused rapid growth in crops and disease.
- Cereal crops are at flag leaf with barley heading. Canola bolting and flowering with fungicide being applied to higher yield potential fields. Corn is generally stunted and yellow with the better fields knee high. Soybean fields are thin and generally in the three to five trifoliate stage. Winter crops are headed.
- Hay swaths damaged by moisture.
Central
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- Rain, hail and wind damage. Crops are yellowing and lodging. Weed pressure is high.
- Canola flowering. Winter wheat has headed, early spring wheat and barley is heading. Oats are flag to boot. Corn is seven to nine leaves and soybeans are three to four trifoliate. Tuber initiation in potatoes.
- Fungicides are being applied to cereals and canola primarily by air, as fields are too wet.
- Reports of alfalfa weevil, diamondback moth larvae and bertha armyworm egg
masses.
Interlake
- Rain, wind and hail damage.
- Early seeded spring wheat and winter wheat are heading, barley is headed. Later seeded cereals are four leaf to flag. Herbicide applications continue to be a struggle. Canola from four leaf to flowering, fungicide applied for sclerotinia.
West
- Severe weather damage and disease pressure. Weed control 60 to 90 percent complete.
- Risk of fusarium head blight in wheat and sclerotinia in canola. Leaf rust in wheat, crown rust and bacterial blight in oats and common root rot in field peas.
- Alfalfa is in the 40 to 60 percent bud stage with little haying.
SASKATCHEWAN
South
- Up to 20 percent of fields are drowned. Spraying delayed by weather.
- Flea beetle, aphids and grasshoppers have caused crop damage with some insecticide applied. Ascochyta blight, septoria and gophers present.
- Moisture conditions improving, hay good to excellent.
- In the west, hail, wind and heat damage to canola.
Central
- Severe hail and rain damage in barley and rye. Weather delayed crops and herbicide spraying. In the west 30 percent of crops have excess water, in the east 40 percent.
- Flea beetle and aphid damage with some spraying. Bertha armyworm moth increasing. Wireworm damage. Leaf diseases on cereals and ascochyta blight in some areas.
- Pasture and hay good to excellent.
North
- Excess rain causing damage to most crops; 15 percent not seeded. Spraying delayed and weed pressure high.
- Western areas 15 percent too wet, eastern 50 percent.
- Haying is delayed, but quality is excellent.
ALBERTA
South
- Overall soil moisture good to excellent.
- Specialty crops good to very good, canola and peas starting to flower. Hay and pasture good to excellent with 25 percent cut.
- Herbicide spraying 80 percent complete, fungicides underway.
Central
- Rain and hail damage, with weather delaying spraying; 27 percent of cropland reports excess moisture with eight percent unseeded.
- Herbicide application 70 percent complete. Crops and pasture rated good to excellent.
Northeast
- Rain and hail damage is significant, reseeding of some crops. Crops are good to excellent with herbicide applications 70 complete.
- Pasture good to excellent and tame hay harvest complete.
Northwest
- Crops are delayed two weeks, but in good to excellent condition with 60 percent of herbicide application complete.
- Pasture and hay good to excellent. Some haying started.
Peace
- Wet conditions have left 15 percent unseeded. Snow, hail and frost damage causing reseeding.
- Crop development is delayed with 57 percent good and only five percent excellent.
Conditions as of June 29
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