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Western Producer Crop Report

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Published: August 14, 2008

MANITOBA

Interlake/East

  • Winter wheat is being combined in the south Interlake, with fusarium below one percent being reported.
  • Excess moisture in the Interlake is limiting the hay cut, as 60 to 70 percent of tame hay is cut and the majority of wild hay is not cut.
  • Approximately 10 percent of barley fields are ripe.

South, Red River Valley

West

  • Harvested winter wheat is producing yields of 50 to 55 bushels per acre.
  • Approximately 50 percent of corn is tasselling.
  • Canola is well podded, but sclerotinia is reported in the Swan River Valley.
  • High moisture in the Ste. Rose area is delaying cutting, but other regions are progressing.

SASKATCHEWAN

Central

  • Cereal crops have advanced rapidly with increased temperatures across the region.
  • Some pea and lentil crops have been desiccated or swathed, with harvest nearing.
  • Canola crops that suffered from mixed germination have filled in. Early seeded canola is fully podded, while later germinated crops are still blooming.
  • Bertha armyworms and diamond back moths are reported in many areas.
  • Hay crops are still being harvested. Yields are below average in many areas, but pasture conditions are average to good due to recent rain.

North

  • Cereals and oilseeds are improving rapidly, both in yield and maturity, but remain behind schedule for the first weeks of August.
  • Early seeded peas are being desiccated.
  • Haying is underway in some areas, and is complete in the west and in the Prince Alberta area.
  • Pasture conditions are average to good.

South

  • Gopher damage continues to plague the southwest.
  • Some limited grasshopper feeding is damaging late-maturing crops.
  • Greenfeed haying and silaging is underway.
  • Winter cereal harvest is nearing 50 percent completion.
  • Canola and mustard crops are podded. Blooming nearly complete in all areas.
  • Pasture conditions in the south and southwest are average to poor but significantly improved over 2007.
  • Peas and lentils are being swathed and desiccated, with some harvest of very early pulses underway.

ALBERTA

South

  • About 10,000 acres of potatoes were hit by July 15 storms with damage estimated at 10 to 100 percent. Most of the fields were processing potatoes destined for chipping.
  • Many irrigation pivots still laying wrecked in fields from same storm.
  • Corn starting to tassle, but still about three weeks late in maturity.
  • Winter wheat mostly swathed. Peas ready to dessicate. Wheat and barley expected to yield higher than normal.
  • Most haying complete with good yields.
  • Generally crops look good, but are 10 to 14 days later than normal because of cool weather.

Central

  • Several showers have kept crops growing. Farmers are looking for extra rain to increase yield in canola.
  • Spotty hail damage has reduced canola yields in some areas, but generally crops look good.
  • Cereal crops average to above average.
  • Some pre-harvest desiccation of cereal crops and peas underway. Peas beginning to ripen.
  • Most canola has finished flowering and is starting to pod.
  • Second cut of hay coming off. Oats coming off for haylage.
  • Subsoil moisture starting to disappear because of hot, dry weather.

North

  • Cattle producers running out of pasture in Peace River area because of dry conditions. Some producers digging into precious hay supplies by the beginning of August.
  • Brome grass harvest underway, but generally poor grass yields. Swathing of fescue started.
  • In northwest, some rain has kept crops growing.
  • Cereal crop yields expected to be average to above average.
  • Second cut hay well underway.
  • In northwest, more rain is needed, but crops are still holding up well.

Conditions as of Aug. 11.

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