MANITOBA
East
- Winter wheat in the soft dough stage, spring cereals heading, flax and canola flowering, soybeans at two to three trifoliate and corn is knee high.
- Excessive moisture, high temperatures and high humidity have caused considerable water-logging damage to crops.
- Heavy disease pressure in cereals. Fungicide spraying continues.
- Bertha armyworm moth counts high in some areas.
- Haying is fully underway.
Central
- Crop growth stages are similar to eastern areas.
- Excess moisture damage continues due to saturated soils, especially on heavy soils and in low areas.
- Hail damage has been heavy in some areas.
- Pastures are in good condition.
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Interlake
- Excessive moisture damage in many crops. Spraying delayed.
- Canola rotting in low areas.
- Pastures are very good but
haying has been delayed.
West
- Crop development variable due to excess moisture with canola the hardest hit.
- Spraying in cereals and peas is in full swing including canola in the southwest.
- Pastures are in very good condition but haying has been delayed with deteriorating quality.
SASKATCHEWAN
South
- Cereals are heading, canola and peas are at early to mid flowering.
- Crop conditions are very good to excellent, with adequate moisture in most areas.
- Bertha armyworm moth counts are variable with higher numbers east of Regina and lower numbers near Moose Jaw.
- Diamondback larvae numbers range from light to heavy.
- Good quality pastures and hay.
Central
- Cereals are heading, canola and peas are flowering.
- Very good to excellent crop growth conditions reported, with some hail damage.
- Disease pressure is increasing in cereal crops. Some spraying for diamondback moth larvae underway. Bertha armyworms reported.
- Pastures in very good condition.
West
- Crops are good to excellent. Some damage from excess moisture.
- Some gopher damage reported.
- Chickpea spraying is underway, along with spraying for diamondback moth larvae.
- Pastures and hay in good shape.
North
- Excess moisture resulted in stressed crops in fair to good condition in the northeast.
- In the northwest, crops are good to excellent.
- Pastures are very good to excellent and haying has begun.
ALBERTA
South
- Cereals heading, canola ranging from first flower to 40 to 50 percent, dry beans eight inches high and corn 12 to 40 inches high.
- Crops are very good to excellent.
- Most canola fields south of Highway 1 have required control for cabbage seedpod weevil.
Central
- West-central areas continue to suffer from excess moisture.
- In east-central Alberta, crops are good to excellent.
- Cereals at the flag to heading stage, canola and peas at early flower.
- Leaf diseases in cereals reported.
- Pastures are very good to excellent and haying continues.
North
- Cereals are at flag to heading; canola and peas flowering.
- Crops are very good to excellent, with high yield potential.
- Reports of grasshoppers and leaf diseases in cereals.
- Pastures are very good. First cut hay produced high yields and quality.
Peace River
- Cereals are at flag to heading; canola and peas are bolting to
flowering.
- Weed growth is heavy.
* Some spraying for sclerotinia
- Some spraying for sclerotinia
in the north.
Conditions as of July 9.
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