Manitoba
East
- Cereal and canola harvest is complete. Flax is more than 85 percent complete. Corn, sunflower and soybean harvest continues.
- Good progress on field cultivation.
- Volunteer re-growth is heavy, requiring two cultivations.
- Pastures are poor.
Central
- Harvest of cereals and canola is complete.
- Flax combining continues with yields in the 20 to 25 bushels per acre range.
- Sunflowers are drying down and early fields are being harvested with an average of 1,500 pounds per acre. Soybean harvest has begun.
- Field cultivation continues.
- Winter wheat seeding is nearing completion.
- Pastures are poor.
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Interlake
- Many producers are finished fall harvest. Cereal harvest is complete and canola is nearly complete with average yields of 20 to 30 bu. per acre.
- Flax harvest is about 50 percent complete with yields in the range of 20-25 bu. per acre.
- Field tillage and herbicide weed control is well underway.
- Corn, soybeans and sunflowers are being combined.
- Pastures are fair.
West
- Cereal harvest is nearly complete throughout the west with about 30 percent of canola fields remaining.
- Lower bushel weight for cereals reported, with small seeds and lower yields than expected in canola.
- Pastures are fair in the south and good in the northwest.
Alberta
South
- Showers have slowed harvest operations. Cereal and canola harvest nearly complete.
- Yields have been good overall but below what was expected.
- Barley yields are down because of heat-shrunken heads.
- Sugar beet harvest has begun and potato harvesting is in full swing.
- Corn silage yields are equal to better than last year.
- Pastures are poor to fair.
Central
- Rain showers delayed harvest.
- Harvest of all crops is 30 to 60 percent complete depending on the area and rainfall.
- Yields average to above average.
- Pastures are in good condition.
North
- Harvest continues with some areas slowed by showers.
- Yields are average with wheat at 40 to 50 bu. per acre, canola 30 to 45 bu. per acre and barley 30 to 60 bu. per acre.
- Pastures are in good condition.
Peace River
- About 20 percent of fields have been combined.
- Showers have slowed combining progress.
- Hard frosts are reported.
- Cereal yields are just above average while canola yields are average.
- Pastures are in good condition.
Saskatchewan
South
- Harvest is more than 90 percent complete for cereals and canola. Flax harvest is about 50 percent complete.
- Winter wheat emergence has been delayed due to dry soil conditions.
- Yields are average to below average and quality is good.
- Pastures are poor.
Central
- Showers have delayed harvest.
- East-central areas are 60 percent complete for all crops while more progress has been made in the West where more than 80 percent has been combined.
- Canola yields continue to be variable ranging from poor to a bumper crop.
- Duck and geese crop damage is reported.
- Winter wheat seeding continues.
- Pastures range from fair to
good.
North
- Showers, snow flurries and frost have delayed harvest.
- About 35 percent of cereals and 40 percent of canola have been harvested.
- Quality downgrading is reported due to sprouting and bleaching in cereals. Yields continue to be variable.
- Fall tillage and herbicide weed control continues.
Conditions as of Sept. 24.
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