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Timing matters: Pre-harvest glyphosate and grain moisture

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Western Producer Crop Report

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Published: August 28, 2008

MANITOBA

Interlake, East

  • Rain has delayed harvest and haying operations.
  • Eastern areas received variable rain, causing downgrading of crops due to sprouting and fusarium.
  • Winter wheat harvest about 80 percent complete.
  • Oat harvest progressing well with yield and quality well above average. Most canola swathed.
  • Hay good with second cut about 70 percent complete. Second cut alfalfa yielding around 1.5 tonnes per acre.

Central, Red River Valley

ranging from 10 to 60 millimetres.

  • Manitou, Treherne and Gladstone areas reported heavy rain and crop lodging.
  • Wind damage reported around Portage and Morris areas.
  • Cereal harvest most advanced in the Red River Valley with harvest at least 50 percent complete and average to above

average yields. Quality is good but fusarium is a concern.

  • Winter wheat is mostly complete with some sprouting due to rain.
  • Soybean crops look good but need heat. Soybean aphids a concern.

West

  • Harvest progressing well in southwest. Rain delayed operations in some areas. Regions north of Shoal Lake reported 75-80 mm.
  • Spring cereals being swathed in southwest. Most canola should be cut this week.
  • Sunflowers and corn continue to advance but maturity is delayed.
  • Soil moisture conditions in northwest vary significantly. Some areas of northern parkland received rain, with amounts ranging from 75-130 mm.
  • Winter wheat harvest is underway with excellent quality and yields.

SASKATCHEWAN

North

  • Warm dry weather in northeast damaging crops. Four percent of crop is combined and 22 percent is swathed.
  • Regional yields of spring wheat, durum, oats, barley, canola and mustard expected to be the highest in the province.
  • Variable weather in northwest last week. About two percent of crop is harvested and another 10 percent is swathed.
  • Wheat midge, bertha armyworms and grasshoppers causing damage.

Central

  • Variable weather in central regions last week.
  • Harvest 19 percent complete in east-central areas; five percent complete in west-central.
  • Some areas around Leroy, Young and Hanley reported light frost.
  • Winter wheat, sunflowers, lentils and peas look good in east-central areas.
  • Fall rye looks good in west central regions. Winter wheat, triticale, sunflowers, and chickpea crops below provincial average.
  • Second growth and late maturing crops common in east-central areas.

South

  • Southeast had mixed weather conditions last week.
  • Some areas reported wind damage, including lodging, while others had heavy rain and flooding causing grade losses and lodging. Heat damage reported in the Minton area.
  • Thirteen percent of southeastern crop harvested and an additional 21 percent is swathed or ready to be straight-combined.
  • Topsoil moisture conditions on cropland improved. Hay and pasture land benefited from rain.
  • Sawflies are causing damage. Grasshoppers, diamondback moths, and aphids also evident.
  • Generally warm and dry in southwest last week.
  • Southwest harvest is 22 percent complete.

ALBERTA

Peace, Northeast

  • Harvest beginning in most areas of the Peace. Yields dependent on spotty rain showers.
  • Cleardale area wiped out. There will likely be no harvest in the northwest part of the Peace. Manning area is one exception to poor crops.
  • Market garden crops along Peace River looking good. Corn crops ready.
  • In northeast, harvest underway. Farmers pulling harvest equipment out of storage for before-harvest maintenance.

Central

  • Early wheat starting to come off with average to above average yield.
  • Grain coming off in excellent condition.
  • Canola and peas are being swathed in many areas.
  • Second cut of hay delayed by rain. Cattle producers pleased with rain to help keep pastures growing.
  • Rain and wind knocked some heavy barley and wheat crops down. Will be hard to harvest, but yields expected to be high.
  • Silage operations well underway and into final swing. Good yields with pits filling up quickly.

South

  • Crops are behind schedule because of late spring.
  • Swathing of canola and peas has begun.
  • Overall yields expected to be average to above average for major crops. Canola yields average.
  • Hail damaged many promising crops.
  • Haying mostly complete. Pasture regrowth slow.

Conditions as of August 25.

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