MANITOBA
Dry conditions continue, resulting in premature ripening and much lower yield potential than normal. Pastures need rain.
East and Interlake
- Winter wheat harvest is nearing completion.
- Soybeans are podding. There are reports of soybean aphids, with some fields being sprayed and reports of anthracnose in edible beans.
- In the Interlake, early sown barley, canola and oats are being swathed.
Central
- Winter wheat harvest is nearing completion, with yields ranging from 40-90 bushels an acre.
- Fall rye yields range from 35 to 60 bu. an acre and barley ranges from 35-85 bu. an acre.
- Hard red spring wheat and peas are being swathed.
- Canola is rapidly turning and being swathed.
- Flax is podding to turning and sunflowers are wilting.
- Bertha armyworms are reported at Russell and Somerset.
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Southwest and northwest
- Winter wheat and fall rye harvests are nearing completion with below average yields. Swathing of all crops is well underway.
- Early sown wheat and barley are now swathed, with some combining.
- Bertha armyworms are reported from Swan River to Roblin.
SASKATCHEWAN
Warm weather continues to advance crops and reduce yield potential in areas without showers.
Southeast
- Winter wheat harvest is underway with good yields.
- Spring wheat and durum are ripening quickly. Lentils are being desiccated. Chickpeas are still green.
- Swathing has begun on field peas, while barley, canola and mustard are ripening.
- Bertha armyworms are highly variable and being sprayed.
- Heavy aphids are reported in most crops.
- Anthracnose is reported in lentils. Aschochyta infections are heavy in some chickpea fields.
Northeast
- Wheat is ripening and yield potential looks good. Canola is podding and 10 or more days from swathing. Barley and oats are starting to turn.
- Wheat has lots of tan spot and septoria.
- Canola is showing sclerotinia damage. Wheat midge and stem maggot damage are also present in crops.
- Bertha armyworms are quite variable from field to field around Rosthern, Birch Hills, Tisdale and Preece-ville.
Central
- Some winter wheat has been harvested but most fields are a week to 10 days from harvest.
- Wheat is headed, early barley is being swathed, flax is podding and peas are maturing rapidly with some swathed.
- Some lentil fields are showing anthracnose and root rot damage.
- There is considerable sawfly and wheat midge damage in wheat.
- There is spraying for bertha armyworms.
Southwest and northwest
- Winter wheat harvest is 60 percent complete with yields of 40-45 bu. an acre.
- Peas and lentils are about 50 percent complete, with yields of 25-50 for peas and 15-25 for lentils.
- Chickpeas are fully podded and ripening.
- Early canola is swathed with an estimated yield of 30 bu. an acre, while late sown canola is podded and has only 10-15 bu.
- In the northwest, recent cool temperatures and scattered showers have slowed crop development.
- Many cereal, pea and canola fields are turning colour.
- Some pea fields have been swathed or desiccated.
- Bertha armyworms are reported in high numbers in some areas.
ALBERTA
Cooler temperatures slowed plant development.
South
- Winter wheat and early dryland barley are coming off with lower yields than expected.
- Early wheat fields are turning. Barley silaging is nearing completion. Pea harvest has started, with average yields.
- Early canola is turning.
- Silage corn, dry beans and sugar beets are looking very good.
- Bertha armyworms are reported at Milo and Vulcan.
- Lygus bugs plentiful and need spraying in High River and Vulcan canola.
- Pastures are burning up.
Central
- Crops are filling nicely and most fields are starting to turn.
- Swathing has begun on early sown crops.
- Scattered hail damage was reported near Red Deer.
- Pastures are recovering with the rain.
Northeast and northwest
- Crops are two weeks ahead of normal.
- Peas are being desiccated.
- Canola fields are quite variable due to planting dates.
- Wheat is in the soft dough stage. Barley is in the milk to soft dough stage.
- Bertha armyworms are reported at Mannville, Vermilion, Paradise Valley and Wainwright.
- Silaging is continuing.
- Pastures are rated fair to good.
Peace River
- Low areas are waterlogged.
- Early wheat is ripening and later sown wheat is filling quite nicely.
- Barley crops are in the soft dough stage.
Conditions as of Aug. 4.
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