Manitoba Agriculture reports excess rainfall in some pockets across Manitoba has kept farmers from completing planting and has hurt crops that have been planted.
Manitoba Agriculture released its weekly crop report Monday.
With the exception of a few pockets across Manitoba where growers have been dealing with excessive moisture and haven’t been able to get onto the fields, spring planting is very close to wrapping up.
Pam de Rocquigny, a Cereal Crop Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, reports crops are generally looking good across the province but there are areas where farmers are contending with excess rain.
So far, from what we’ve been hearing through the reporting in the crop report, the warmer temperatures that we’ve been getting over the past week along with soil moisture conditions we’ve seen some really rapid development in our crop types as well. We are seeing areas of the province where there are excess moisture conditions and that is playing a role in terms of impacting some of those crops. We are seeing excess moisture. We’re seeing crop yellowing, we’re seeing in the lower areas of the fields where crops either have died just because they’ve been under water for too long or we’re seeing crop injury where they’ve slowed their development as well.
There is variability across the province in terms of the soil moisture conditions and the impact that they are having on crops but we are, in some areas were we’ve seen quite a bit of precipitation, it definitely is having an impact on the crops in those areas. ~ Pam de Rocquigny, Manitoba Agriculture
De Rocquigny says, within the five regions, the Southwest, the Northwest, the Central, the Eastern and the Interlake Regions, they all have areas where farmers are reporting excessive moisture conditions.
She notes there are areas in the Northwest Region that were drier up until last week when they finally did receive some precipitation and farmers in those areas were actually welcoming the rain.
