Alberta
South
– Warmer temperatures helped crop maturity. Damage from Aug. 3 hail in Taber, Vulcan and Wheatland counties is severe, with large crop losses.
– Winter cereals harvest 30 percent complete.
– Peas and lentils 20 percent complete.
– Canola swathing has started.
– Pasture conditions are improving.
Central
– Showers have aided crop development, but sub-surface moisture remains 45 percent poor.
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– Hail damage claimed crops in the municipalities of Rocky View, Lacombe and Red Deer.
– Combining of winter wheat and pulse crops has started with 20 percent of the fall-seeded crops harvested.
Northwest
– Sub-surface moisture is near 80 percent poor.
– Half of spring cereals are rated as poor and 42 percent fair.
– Fall cereals are 25 percent harvested.
– Severe grasshopper damage in forages
– Frost reported in Edmonton.
Northeast
– Near freezing temperatures overnight Aug. 24.
– In the west, soil moisture is 75 percent poor and improves near the Saskatchewan border.
– Spring cereals are 35 percent poor and 52 percent fair. Canola is 46 percent poor and 47 percent fair. Peas 37 percent poor and 53 percent fair.
– 70 percent of the pastures are rated as poor.
Peace and B.C.
– Sub soil moisture continues to deteriorate, with 77 percent rated as poor.
– Crops need heat to mature.
– Pastures rated as 58 percent poor, 31 percent fair and 11 percent good.
– Harvest underway in early crops. Canola swathing expected to start in the next week.
Saskatchewan
Southwest
– Thirty-seven percent of winter wheat is combined, six percent of oats, 12 percent of triticale, two of canola, 10 of mustard, 12 of lentils, 30 of peas and four of barley.
– Pasture conditions improving.
Southeast
– Between 40 and 80 mm of rain stalled winter wheat swathing. Three percent is combined.
– A few early pulse crops are being swathed or combined.
West-central
– Rain in many areas stalled desiccation of peas and lentils.
– Topsoil moisture continues to improve with 83 percent reported as adequate.
– Four percent of winter wheat and nine of fall rye harvested.
– Some canola blooming, most podding.
– Crop damage due to flooding.
– Grasshoppers and wind related crop lodging. Hail at Biggar and Smiley.
East-central
– Mustard swathing started.
– Winter cereal harvest underway. A few early pulse crops desiccated.
– Canola highly variable with some crops still in flower, most podding.
– Desiccation of pulses and some glyphosate spraying of wheat.
Northwest
– Topsoil moisture adequate or better.
– Fall cereals being cut and some combining taking place.
– Crops good but delayed by two weeks.
Northeast
– Showers up to 77 mm at Humboldt.
– Pulse desiccation beginning. More than half of fall cereals being swathed or ready to cut.
– Wind related crop lodging a serious problem in cereals.
Manitoba
Southwest
– North of the Trans-Canada Highway, most producers have desiccated winter wheat but little harvest has been done.
– Yields are average with good quality.
– Most of the fall rye crop has been harvested with yields slightly above average and good quality.
Northwest
– Excess moisture in some areas prevented ranchers from accessing native hay meadows.
– Pre-harvest application of desiccants has taken place on a few advanced cereal fields.
– Cereal and oilseed crops require warm weather to advance to maturity.
Central
– Rainfall in the region varied from 40 to 90 mm in eastern areas, while western parts of the region received 15 to 50 mm. Hail was reported in the Brunkild and Morden areas.
– Winter wheat harvest is progressing with reports of yields ranging from 30 to 90 bushels per acre.
– Canola is maturing with late-seeded canola blooming. Some swathing has started. Blackleg and sclerotinia reported in some canola fields, causing lodging concerns.
Eastern
– Weather delaying field operations.
– Harvesting of winter wheat occurred last week. Fusarium damaged kernels and sprouting evident.
– Limited barley harvesting occurred with reported yields of 80 to 90 bu. per acre.
Interlake
– Rain through the week varied from 12 mm in the Ashern area to 70 mm in the Riverton-Arborg district.
– Some winter wheat acres were combined at tough moisture contents.
– Yields range from 65 to 70 bu. per acre. Sprouting causing downgrading in samples.
– Sclerotinia found in many canola fields.
