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Agri-Coaches Corner/Crop Report

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Published: September 16, 2004

MANITOBA

  • Wet weather is hampering harvest in eastern Manitoba.
  • Thirty-five percent of the winter wheat is combined, while 40 percent of the canola are swathed.
  • About 15 percent of the spring cereals are swathed.
  • Second-cut haying operations are slowed by rains in the Interlake.
  • Frost of Ð2 C reported at Melita-Waskada.
  • Winter wheat and rye crops are sprouting.
  • Corn development is retarded.
  • Winter wheat combining is under way at Brandon-Neepawa, with excellent yields reported.
  • Cut canola is sprouting.

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  • More than half of the canola is swathed around Dauphin, where winter wheat is coming in with good yields but poor quality.

SASKATCHEWAN

  • Cool, damp weather is slowing harvest in Saskatchewan.
  • Ten percent of the crop has been combined and another 27 percent is lying in the swath or ready to straight combine. The five-year average is 53 percent combined by this time of year.
  • Crop quality is a concern, with reports of bleaching, staining, sprouting, mould and mildew.
  • Hail damaged crops in southeastern and east-central regions.
  • Early seeded barley is yielding up to 100 bu. an acre at Norquay.
  • Fifteen-35 percent of canola could be lost in the bad weather.
  • Sixty percent of the canola and 80 percent of the winter wheat are swathed.
  • No significant damage is reported in combined canola at Kamsack.
  • Crops are ripening around Regina, with lentils looking poor and heavily frost damaged. Peas are sprouting.
  • Wheat has high moisture content and is poor and small with shrivelled kernels.
  • Flax is highly variable, with early seeded plants showing up to 70 percent colour change.

ALBERTA

  • Snow knocked down crops in the Peace region. Combining is about three percent done
  • Peas are poor around Edmonton due to moisture, with sclerotinia showing up in canola.
  • Frosts of -3 and -4 C reported at Westlock, where canola is 90 percent swathed.
  • Seventy-80 percent of the canola is swathed in central Alberta.
  • Corn yields will be low.
  • Thirty-five percent of combining is complete in the southwest, where grasslands are in good shape.
  • Cereals are combined around Taber, with good quality and some bleaching seen. Swathing of canola is under way, with good quality and yields.
  • Half of the potato crop is in the bin, with excellent quality but less than normal yields.
  • Sugar beets look good and the sweet corn harvest is winding down.
  • White mould is reported on dry beans.

Conditions as of Sept. 13.

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