Agri-Coaches Corner/Crop Report

Manitoba

Rains delayed harvest operations.

East

Most cereals and canola have been harvested. Yields are poor.
Winter wheat is yielding 15-40 bushels per acre, with below average quality. Spring wheat is yielding 10-15 bu., barley 20-40 bu., oats 35-60 bu. and canola 10-15 bu.
Rains have softened crusted soil.
Winter wheat being seeded.

Interlake

Winter wheat is yielding 15-40 bu. with low quality and some fusarium. Spring wheat is yielding 15-40 bu., barley up to 75 bu. in the north and 15-30 bu. in the south with light samples and oats up to 70 bu. Canola yields are poor.

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Yields variable with wheat 10-15 bu. in east and 35-50 bu. further west. Quality poor due to small kernels, low protein and fusarium.
Barley is yielding 20-70 bu. with highest yields in the west. Oat yields are 20-70 bu. with low sample weights. Canola is yielding two to 15 bu. in east and 20-30 bu. in west. Pea yields are variable from 20-30 to 45-50 bu.
Late-sown crops await swathing, with yields expected to vary due to drowned out areas.
Soybeans are podding, sunflowers look better and are starting to fill. Flax is being desiccated with reasonable yield potential.
There is little second cut hay.

Winter wheat harvest is nearly complete with yields 25-45 bu. and lower bushel weight and quality.
Some barley has been harvested with yields of 35-40 bu. and below average quality. Oats are yielding 90-110 bu. while pea yields are low at 20 bu. Lentils are also below average at 1,000-1,200 lb. per acre.
Most canola has been swathed south of Trans-Canada Highway and only 50 percent north.
Low sclerotinia levels in canola, with alternaria black spot reported.

Swathing is progressing slowly with only 15-20 percent of wheat, barley and canola down.
About eight percent has been combined. Low yields reported.
Winter wheat harvest is finished.
Borage and grass seed crops are being swathed.
Cereal silage is well advanced with variable yields.

Rain and cool weather have delayed harvest operations.

Winter wheat and fall rye are now being combined. Early barley and peas are being combined.
Swathing has started in wheat and canola.
Reports of crop damage from sawflies, diamond back moths, mildew and lodging.

nYields are above average for early wheat and barley fields.

High populations of flea beetles are reported in some canola fields. Sawfly is a major problem with some fields at 90 percent infection.

Winter wheat and fall rye are nearing completion.
Swathing is general in wheat, peas and canola.
Desiccation of pulses continues. Combining is advancing in peas (40 percent), lentils (20 percent) and chickpeas (19 percent).
Disease pressure is moderate with rust in wheat, ascochyta in peas and sclerotinia in canola.

Winter wheat and fall rye combining continues.
Canola, peas and wheat swathing is general with some combining.
Combined wheat and barley fields are showing high yields while pea yields are down from last year.
Chickpeas are starting to mature. Lodged crops are a concern.
Grasshoppers, lygus bugs, sawflies and bertha armyworms reported.

Bertha armyworm continues to be a problem in the Waldheim, Laird and Rosthern areas. Sawfly problems are evident in field headlands.
Sclerotinia ranges from light to heavy in canola fields. Ascochyta is present in field peas.

Cool temperatures and heavy rains have delayed harvesting.

Frost was reported for much of Peace, ranging from -3 to Ð7 C in low lying areas.
Swathing of wheat, barley and canola is general. Crop yield potential is rated very good to excellent.
Bertha armyworms a problem in Eaglesham and Wanham areas.

Swathing of early barley, peas and canola is under way.
Canola maturity variable.
Lodging in cereals is a concern because it will slow swathing.
Rust is prevalent in spring wheat. Sclerotinia is evident in many canola fields.
Pastures are good. Silage operations under way with good yields.

Light frost was reported in the western areas.
Swathing under way for early barley, canola and wheat.
Crop yield potential is very good to excellent. Lodging of cereals is a concern.

Swathing well underway in early barley and canola. Yield potential is good to excellent.
Wheat nearing hard dough stage.
Spraying continues for the control of bertha armyworms in the Wainwright through to Vermilion-Lloydminster area where some

fields suffered severe damage.

Winter wheat combining is nearly complete. Swathing and combining of wheat are under way.

Barley swathing is nearly complete with some combining and reports of sprouting in the swath due to 100 millimetres of rain.
Canola swathing is general.
Heavy winds have caused shattering in standing canola.
Chickpeas are ripening slowly.
Cabbage seedpod weevil damage is showing up in canola.
Disease pressure for untreated cereals is high. Spring wheat has been hard hit by rust.
Cereal silage is nearly complete with high yields reported.