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Western Producer Crop Report

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Published: September 3, 2009

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.
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  • Canola swathing underway with highly variable crops.
  • Hay shortages and poor pastures a serious concern.

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.

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