A cereal crop specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development reports over 75 percent of the province’s 2015 crop has now been harvested.
Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development released its weekly crop report yesterday.
Cereal crop specialist Pam de Rocquigny says favorable weather, in terms of warm temperatures, minimal rainfall and windy conditions over the past week resulted in good harvest progress.
Most of the spring cereals, so that would include our spring wheat, our barley and oats, they’re pretty well wrapped up. I think there’s still the odd field that may need to be harvested but for the most part our spring cereal harvest is complete in the province. We’re hearing variable quality.
A lot of the stuff that was harvested earlier in the season and didn’t experience those rainfalls had good quality however the stuff that was later in the season and did have some rainfall and precipitation did result in some downgrading that was noted, largely due to things such as weathering or sprouting but, for the most part, in terms of quality it seemed to be average and as well the yields that we’ve been hearing for most of our spring cereal crops have been average to actually above average so that’s been good news.
The canola crop as well, it’s nearing completion. It’s not as advanced as our spring cereals of course but there was some good harvest progress made and some of those non reseeded canola acres, they’re approaching completion where as the stuff that was reseeded largely due to the frost events that we did see in May they’re, depending on the region, anywhere from 40 to 50 percent complete upwards of 90 to 90 percent complete, so a little more variable in terms of the canola crop.
De Rocquigny says there was good progress made with soybeans over the past week and that is expected to continue into this week.
She notes there’s flax, sunflowers and grain corn as well as crops such as buckwheat and industrial hemp still out there but farmers have made good progress and are now 75 percent complete across the province.
