Alberta
South
- Dry conditions and record setting heat pushed the latest of the crops, mainly canola, to maturity.
- Frost on the morning of Sept. 27.
- Spring cereal harvests are 85 percent complete.
- Canola has progressed to 40 percent.
- Baling of cereal straw is underway with straw bringing better than average prices.
- Pasture conditions have continued to decline, with about 60 percent in poor condition.
- Corn silage underway, with average yields.
Central
- Spring cereal threshing is 60 percent complete.
- Pulse crop harvest complete.
- Canola harvest 35 percent complete.
- Frost on the morning of Sept. 27.
- Straw in short supply, feed short.
- Supplementary feeding on pastures underway.
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Northwest
- Heat and wind allowed for long hours in the field and harvest progressed rapidly last week.
- Cereal harvest 60 percent complete.
- Swathed crops were damaged by high winds.
- Greenfeed and yellow feed baling finishing.
Northeast
- Spring cereals are 65 percent in the bin.
- Canola 35 percent harvested. Yields vary, with better crops near Lloydminster between 25 and 55 bu.
- Hard frost along the Saskatchewan border, reaching -5 C.
- Some flax near the Saskatchewan border, with yields of about 25 bu. per acre.
- Silage of corn underway.
- 75 percent of pastures are rated as poor. Some cattle dispersals taking place.
- Some pasture supplementation underway.
Peace and B.C.
- Harvest progressed rapidly last week with 60 percent of cereals and 20 percent of canola harvested.
- Green and yellow feed baling taking place.
- Some pasture supplementation in the northeast.
Saskatchewan
Southwest
- Record setting heat up to 34 C and strong winds kept combines running long hours.
- Spring cereal and canola harvests 95 percent complete.
- Chickpeas and flax are 40 percent harvested.
- Canola 30 to 45 bu. range, durum to 60 bu., barley to 100, oats to 90.
- Frost to -3 C for two hours at Assiniboia.
- Widespread sawfly damage in spring cereals. Deer damage.
Southeast
- Heat and wind moved harvest along to reach the 70 percent complete stage.
- Wind damage to swathed fields. Rain on Sept. 27 slowed harvest progress north of Regina.
- Rain causing sprouting concerns for malt barley and durum.
- Flax desiccation underway to deal with green stalks.
- Sawfly damage widespread, slowing harvesting of affected crops.
West-central
- Frost of -4 C at Kindersley.
- Spring cereal harvest 65 percent complete. Canola harvest 40 percent done. Pulse harvest 90 complete, with exception of chickpeas, which are 70 percent harvested. Canaryseed and durum harvest 20 percent complete.
- Cropland moisture is 66 percent adequate.
- Wind with heat allowed rapid harvest progress.
- Hay shortages and pasture supplementation. underway.
East-central
- Chickpeas 73 percent harvested, barley 63 percent complete, spring wheat 36 percent done, mustard 34 percent and 30 percent of canola is done. Peas complete with lentils 90 percent in the bin.
- Canola swaths damaged by wind Sept. 27.
- Cropland moisture generally adequate.
- Sawfly and crop lodging widespread.
Northwest
- Frost of -6 C at Scott.
- Field pea harvest nearly complete. Barley 45 percent complete, canola and spring wheat 25 done, oats 20 percent and 90 percent of lentils done.
- Canola swathing wrapping up.
- Thirty-four percent of malt barley grading malt.
- Pastures underperforming.
Northeast
- Heat and wind aided harvesting.
- Barley is 60 percent harvested, spring wheat 23, mustard 36, durum and oats 25, canola 25.
- Canola swathing near completion.
- Wind and migrating geese causing damage.
Manitoba
Southwest
- Cereals 80 to 90 percent complete, with average and better yields and lower protein.
- Canola harvest 50 percent complete, with average to above average yields.
- Flax harvest 30 percent complete. Sunflower and corn have reached a frost-safe point.
- Despite the late date, fall seeding of winter wheat and fall rye ongoing into moist soils.
- Pastures have regrowth due to August rain and some pasturing of cattle is ongoing.
Central and Red River Valley
- Spring wheat harvest 85 percent complete.
- Potato harvest is 50 percent complete. Quality is excellent, with concerns about late blight and warm storage temperatures causing problems.
- Canola 35 percent complete.
- Barley 80 percent complete, spring wheat 65, flax 10, oats 70.
- Early-seeded canola 30 to 50 bu. per acre.
- Pastures excellent.
Interlake
- Canola is 80 percent harvested in the south, 50 in the north. Cereals 50 percent complete. Poor cereal grades due in part to fusarium.
- Soybean, corn, corn silage and sunflowers still standing.
Northwest
- Spring wheat 75 to 95 percent complete with 40 to 50 bu. per acre averages.
- Oats to 90 bu., barley 75.
- Canola harvest 60 to 90 percent complete, with yields from 35 to 60 bu. Later crops still not mature and some are being ensiled. Second cut haying underway.
- Feed supplies short.
Crop conditions as of Sept. 28.
