MANITOBA
Eastern
- Winter wheat harvest is complete.
- Spring wheat yields range from 40 to 65 bushels per acre.
- Barley harvest is near completion with 50 to 90 bu.
- Canola is being swathed with early crops 30 to 40 bu.
- Sunflowers and soybeans are still filling. Some flax is being harvested.
- Some flea beetles reported in canola.
- Vomitoxin levels low.
Interlake
- Winter wheat is harvested with yields of 65 to 100 bu. per acre.
- Spring wheat is yielding 35 to 60; peas 40 to 50; barley 65 to 100.
- Canola swathing complete.
- Pastures are still very dry.
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Central
- Winter wheat is yielding 40 to 90 bu., spring wheat 35 to 45; barley 35 to 85; peas 40 to 50.
- Canola being swathed. Flax is ripening, with good quality reported.
- Flea beetles found in canola.
- Pastures are dry.
Southwest
- Winter wheat harvest is complete with 45 to 60 bu.
- Swathing is near completion and combining has started. Yields hurt by heat and dryness.
- Pastures are dry.
Northwest
- Wheat, barley and oats are being swathed and combined. Canola swathing has begun.
- Bertha armyworm epidemic is ending. Sclerotinia and wheat midge reported.
- Pastures are dry.
SASKATCHEWAN
Southeast
- Winter wheat, peas and lentils are being combined.
- Most other crops are being swathed. Severe wind damage to swaths reported in some areas.
- Pastures are dry.
Northeast
- Early wheat, barley, canola and peas are being swathed.
- Bertha armyworms are still a problem in canola. Wheat midge damage reported.
- Pastures are dry.
Central
- Winter wheat is being harvested, with average yields.
- Spring wheat is in soft dough stage; barley is being combined with good quality and yield; canola is being swathed and some combined.
- Yield expectations reduced.
- Rain delays and hail damage reported.
- Bertha armyworms are a
common problem. Sawfly and wheat midge damage reported.
- Pastures improved.
Southwest
- Harvest of peas, canola, lentils and mustard is nearing completion.
- Winter cereal harvest is complete with good quality and poor yield.
- Spring cereal harvest shows poor quality and yield.
- Harvest will soon be complete.
- Pastures are dry.
Northwest
- Rain has delayed harvest.
- Swathing has begun on peas, early barley and canola.
- Bertha armyworms are a
problem.
- Pastures are recovering.
ALBERTA
Southern
- Harvest is well under way.
- Pea harvest is almost complete with average yields.
- Early dryland barley and canola yields are average.
- Wheat harvest will begin soon.
- Silage corn, dry beans and sugar beets look very good.
- Bertha armyworms and lygus bugs are a common problem.
- Pastures are dry and turning brown.
Central
- Rains delayed harvest.
- Swathing has begun on early canola and barley but not on wheat.
- Major hail west and south of Red Deer did much damage.
- Little disease or insect damage.
- Pastures look good.
Northwest and Northeast
- Rain delayed harvest.
- Pea harvest has begun.
- Early canola and barley are
being swathed but not wheat.
- Bertha armyworms are a
problem.
- Pastures are fair to good.
Peace River
- Some combining of early peas and canola reported with good
quality and average yields.
- Most fields are a week from swathing.
- Disease and insect damage light.
- Pastures are fair to good.
Conditions as of Aug. 14.
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