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Agri-Coaches Corner/Crop Report

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Published: July 15, 2004

MANITOBA

  • Late-seeded canola is faring better than early-seeded, with the crop two weeks behind.
  • Haying is delayed due to showers.
  • Powdery mildew is reported on sunflowers and field peas.
  • Haying is under way in the Interlake, but quality has been affected by wet conditions.
  • Pastures are growing slowly in cool temperatures.
  • Cereals are at the flag leaf stage, with disease reported.
  • Morden area received up to 50 millimetres of rain.
  • Corn crops are weak and specialty crops need warmth.

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  • Grasshoppers are reported around Portage la Prairie and Treherne.
  • Winter wheat could yield 60 bushels an acre around Neepawa.
  • Crops are shallow rooted and well canopied but are experiencing nitrogen deficiencies.

SASKATCHEWAN

  • The northeast received up to 25 mm of rain, with many areas moist and reporting tan spot and cereal diseases.
  • Cereals are heading around Regina, with peas flowering, canola blooming and flax advancing. Disease is reported in lentils.
  • Crops that survived the wet weather look good.
  • Hail damage and hardened summerfallow fields are reported in the southwest.
  • Localized flooding was seen around Kindersley and Rosetown, where spraying is under way for grasshoppers and net blotch.
  • A mix of warm and cool temperatures is reported in the northwest. Effects of frost damage are now being seen in crops, which are about two weeks behind normal.

ALBERTA

  • Hay crops are poor in the dry Peace region.
  • Wheat is heading out and crops looked good in the Edmonton-Stony Plain region before severe rainstorms flattened crops.
  • Canola is blooming and oats are approaching the flag leaf stage.
  • Wheat and barley are heading out east of Edmonton, which received 100 mm of rain. Canola is bolting and blooming and peas are flowering, with average to above average crops expected.
  • A formerly dry Castor received up to 50 mm of rain.
  • Canola is blooming in central Alberta, with some lodging seen.
  • Disease is reported in cereals fields where cereals were planted last year.
  • Crops are strong in central and southern Alberta. Hay operations in the south are hampered by rain.
  • Early seeded cereals are heading out, while later seeded ones are at the flag leaf stage.
  • Winter wheat is flowering in the south and expected to yield 60 bu. an acre.
  • Few reports of disease and insects are cited in barley, canola and mustard.
  • Cabbage seedpod weevil has been seen around Three Hills.
  • Grasshopper hatch is slow and overall risk is reduced from earlier forecasts. Isolated pockets are still likely.

Conditions as of July 12

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