Alberta
South
- Harvest of pulse crops and fall-seeded crops in full swing, with 75 percent of winter cereals harvested.
- Peas and lentils 40 percent complete.
- Canola swathing has started but agronomists report much has been cut too early and high green seed counts are expected.
- Pasture fair to good.
- Winter wheat seeding has started.
Central
- Warm dry conditions aiding crop development.
- Winter cereal harvest is 50 percent complete.
- Peas and lentils are being desiccated with some early crops harvested. Yields are below the five year average.
- Canola swathing underway with highly variable crops.
- Hay shortages and poor pastures a serious concern.
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Northwest
- Canola remains green, some swathing underway.
- Fall cereals are 70 percent harvested.
- Severe grasshopper damage to forages.
- Peas being desiccated.
- Glyphosate being applied to spring cereals.
Northeast
- Frost caused little damage.
- Drought effects on western crops are hastening otherwise late maturity, while eastern crops are delayed.
- Canola and pea swathing underway.
- Fall cereals 60 percent harvested.
Peace and B.C.
- Frost has damaged late crops.
- Heat and warm nights since last week’s frost have allowed crops to mature. Canola swathing has begun.
- Pastures remain poor to fair.
Saskatchewan
Southwest
- Heat has allowed harvest of desiccated pea and lentil crops.
- 75 percent of fall-seeded crops are harvested.
- More than half of peas, lentils and chickpeas have been harvested.
- Glyphosate being applied to spring cereals.
- Swathing of canola has started where moisture limited growth. Most will start in the next week.
- Durum and barley expected to be ready later this week.
Southeast
- Swathing of peas, barley and canola underway.
- Threshing of winter cereals 50 percent complete, 20 percent of spring pulses.
- Flooding of cropland at Kisbey and Moosomin.
West-central
- Thirty percent of fall cereals in the bin.
- Seventy percent of peas are expected to grade No. 1.
- Some canola still blooming, most podding.
- Grasshoppers and wind-related crop lodging in cereals and canola.
East-central
- Many are swathing to even out crop development.
- Winter cereal harvest almost 30 percent complete.
- Canola variable, with swathing underway.
- Desiccation of pulses and glyph-osate spraying of wheat underway.
Northwest
- Fall cereals being cut and some combining taking place.
- Canola cutting expected to start in about a week.
- Crop condition is good, but delayed by two weeks.
- Wind has caused lodging in some heavier cereal crops.
Northeast
- Swathing has yet to start in spring crops.
- Some fall rye and winter wheat sprouting in the swaths.
- Crops two weeks behind.
- Wind-related crop lodging a serious problem in cereals.
Manitoba
Southwest
- Average to above average winter cereal yields.
- Pea harvest 70 percent complete.
- Canola cutting south of Trans-Canada highway should be complete by week’s end.
Central and Red River Valley
- Winter cereal harvest complete.
- Spring wheat swathing started at Ste. Rose.
- Barley harvest yields in the 80 bu. per acre range.
- Canola swathing started, but challenged by sclerotinia infections.
- White mould in edible beans and soybeans.
Interlake
- Rain delayed early harvest efforts. Mud remains a problem.
- Winter wheat yields from first crops at 70 to 80 bu.
- Spring wheat glyphosate applications underway.
- Canola swathing started in the south.
- Hay supplies short on the east side.
Northwest
- Winter wheat harvest 60 to 70 percent complete.
- Spring wheat swathing started. Straight combining may begin by week’s end.
- Droughty near Swan River.
- Above average silage yields.
Crop conditions at Aug. 31.
