Agri-Coaches Corner/Crop Report

Manitoba

Rains have delayed harvest.

Wide ranges in yield estimates. Many fields have been worked under.
Winter wheat is yielding 15-40 bushels per acre with below average quality, spring wheat is about 75 percent combined at 10-15 bu.
Barley is 20-40 bu., oats 35 bu., canola is 45 percent swathed and yielding 10-15 bu.
Corn, soybeans and sunflowers need another month to mature.
Fusarium is a problem in wheat.
Winter wheat is being seeded.

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Winter wheat harvest is finished, averaging 25 bu. with fusarium and low quality.
Spring wheat is yielding 15-40 bu., barley 75 bu. in the north and 15-30 bu. in the south with light grain.
Oats and flax harvest under way. Poor yields expected. Canola yields are low with lots of fields being straight cut due to thin stands.
Greenfeed in swath is losing quality. Second cut of hay has started but is low yielding.

Wheat yields are low and variable from five-15 bu. in east and 30-40 bu. further west, with most grading No. 2 due to fusarium.
Barley is yielding 20-70 bu. with highest yields and quality in west, oats 20-70 bu. with low weights, canola three-15 bu. in east and 20-35 bu. in west although some reporting 45-55 bu. in the Neepawa area.
Ergot is a problem in wheat and barley in the Portage area. Alternaria is reported in canola.
Potato yields are below average in all areas with irregular shaped tubers in the Portage area. Average yields are expected in corn and soybeans.

Southwest

Winter wheat is completed with yields of two-45 bu. and very poor quality due to fusarium.
Wheat is 25 percent harvested. Quality variable due to fusarium.
Barley is 20 to 60 percent harvested with yields of 35-70 bu. and below average quality.
Oats are five to 35 percent harvested. Quality lower than expected.
Canola is 80 percent swathed. Yields well below average.
Alternaria black spot reported.
Pea harvesting is nearly complete, with yields of 10-40 bu.

Wheat and barley are 60 percent ripe with swathing rapidly advancing and 20 percent harvested.
Wheat quality is variable and yielding 30-50 bu. Barley is running 30-90 bu. with quality ranging from poor to very good.
Canola is nearly 50 percent swathed with 15 percent combined.
Alternaria is reported in canola.
Cereal silage is variable ranging from five to 10 tonnes per acre.

Rain and cool weather delayed harvest. Pastures in good shape.

Northeast

Canola is 70-75 percent swathed with good yield potential.
Barley swathing is nearly completed. Flax is nearing maturity with 70 percent of bolls turning.

Swathing is general in wheat, peas and canola, with 75 percent of winter wheat and fall rye combined, 35 percent of lentils, 60 percent of peas, 32 percent of chickpeas and 18 percent of canola.
Yields are variable. Quality is lower due to ergot, root rot, powdery mildew, lodging, bleaching and light weight. Sawflies are causing lodging.

Winter wheat is about 15 percent combined and fall rye is at 35 percent. Canola, peas and wheat swathing and combining is general.
About 10 percent of lentils and eight percent of peas have been combined. Combined wheat and barley are showing high yields while pea yields are down from last year.

Lodging in cereals, bleaching, staining, sprouting and light weights are a concern.
Alternaria black spot reported in canola. Sawflies and aphids reported.

Flooding and lodging damage from heavy rains reported.
Canola, wheat, barley and pea swathing is general.
Sawflies, diamondback moth larvae and Bertha armyworms are reported, in addition to powdery mildew and mould.
Ascochyta is present in field peas.

Pasture conditions are very good.

A majority of canola has been swathed and swathing of wheat and barley is general.
Crop yield potential is rated very good to excellent.
Light frost had a minor impact on crops, with heavier damage at Fairview and Hines Creek.
Some spraying for Bertha armyworms in the Eaglesham area.

Northwest

Swathing is general in wheat, barley and canola.
Peas’ yield potential is very good to excellent.
Wheat being desiccated. Swathing should be general this week.
Pea fields are being combined although heavy rains have reduced grades to feed due to loss of colour.
There are reports of barley sprouting in the Camrose area.
Spraying continues for the control of Bertha armyworms in the Two Hills and Viking areas.
Silage nearing completion.

Swathing of early barley, peas and canola is general across the region.
Rains delayed harvest operations.
Lodging in cereals is a concern.
Rust is prevalent in spring wheat. Sclerotinia is variable, with most fields experiencing light infection.
Silage operations are nearing completion with good yields. Second cut of hay has excellent potential.

Crops in ripening stage.
Winter wheat combining is nearly complete.
Swathing and combining of wheat is under way.
Barley swathing is nearly complete with some combining and some reports of kernel sprouting in the swath due to recent rains.
Swathing of canola is general. Chickpeas are being desiccated.
Cereal silage is complete. Second cut on alfalfa hay is progressing.