MANITOBA
Interlake, East
- Rain has delayed harvest and haying operations.
- Eastern areas received variable rain, causing downgrading of crops due to sprouting and fusarium.
- Winter wheat harvest about 80 percent complete.
- Oat harvest progressing well with yield and quality well above average. Most canola swathed.
- Hay good with second cut about 70 percent complete. Second cut alfalfa yielding around 1.5 tonnes per acre.
Central, Red River Valley
- Central areas reported rain,
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ranging from 10 to 60 millimetres.
- Manitou, Treherne and Gladstone areas reported heavy rain and crop lodging.
- Wind damage reported around Portage and Morris areas.
- Cereal harvest most advanced in the Red River Valley with harvest at least 50 percent complete and average to above
average yields. Quality is good but fusarium is a concern.
- Winter wheat is mostly complete with some sprouting due to rain.
- Soybean crops look good but need heat. Soybean aphids a concern.
West
- Harvest progressing well in southwest. Rain delayed operations in some areas. Regions north of Shoal Lake reported 75-80 mm.
- Spring cereals being swathed in southwest. Most canola should be cut this week.
- Sunflowers and corn continue to advance but maturity is delayed.
- Soil moisture conditions in northwest vary significantly. Some areas of northern parkland received rain, with amounts ranging from 75-130 mm.
- Winter wheat harvest is underway with excellent quality and yields.
SASKATCHEWAN
North
- Warm dry weather in northeast damaging crops. Four percent of crop is combined and 22 percent is swathed.
- Regional yields of spring wheat, durum, oats, barley, canola and mustard expected to be the highest in the province.
- Variable weather in northwest last week. About two percent of crop is harvested and another 10 percent is swathed.
- Wheat midge, bertha armyworms and grasshoppers causing damage.
Central
- Variable weather in central regions last week.
- Harvest 19 percent complete in east-central areas; five percent complete in west-central.
- Some areas around Leroy, Young and Hanley reported light frost.
- Winter wheat, sunflowers, lentils and peas look good in east-central areas.
- Fall rye looks good in west central regions. Winter wheat, triticale, sunflowers, and chickpea crops below provincial average.
- Second growth and late maturing crops common in east-central areas.
South
- Southeast had mixed weather conditions last week.
- Some areas reported wind damage, including lodging, while others had heavy rain and flooding causing grade losses and lodging. Heat damage reported in the Minton area.
- Thirteen percent of southeastern crop harvested and an additional 21 percent is swathed or ready to be straight-combined.
- Topsoil moisture conditions on cropland improved. Hay and pasture land benefited from rain.
- Sawflies are causing damage. Grasshoppers, diamondback moths, and aphids also evident.
- Generally warm and dry in southwest last week.
- Southwest harvest is 22 percent complete.
ALBERTA
Peace, Northeast
- Harvest beginning in most areas of the Peace. Yields dependent on spotty rain showers.
- Cleardale area wiped out. There will likely be no harvest in the northwest part of the Peace. Manning area is one exception to poor crops.
- Market garden crops along Peace River looking good. Corn crops ready.
- In northeast, harvest underway. Farmers pulling harvest equipment out of storage for before-harvest maintenance.
Central
- Early wheat starting to come off with average to above average yield.
- Grain coming off in excellent condition.
- Canola and peas are being swathed in many areas.
- Second cut of hay delayed by rain. Cattle producers pleased with rain to help keep pastures growing.
- Rain and wind knocked some heavy barley and wheat crops down. Will be hard to harvest, but yields expected to be high.
- Silage operations well underway and into final swing. Good yields with pits filling up quickly.
South
- Crops are behind schedule because of late spring.
- Swathing of canola and peas has begun.
- Overall yields expected to be average to above average for major crops. Canola yields average.
- Hail damaged many promising crops.
- Haying mostly complete. Pasture regrowth slow.
Conditions as of August 25.
