Manitoba Agriculture reports the excess rain that’s fallen in pockets of all regions of the province has reduced yield potential and added to disease pressure.
Manitoba Agriculture released its weekly crop report yesterday.
Pam de Rocquigny, a Cereal Crop Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, reports the majority of acres and crop types in Manitoba are in the flowering stage or in the later grain filling stages of development and are moving along rapidly.
We generally did see good growing conditions across most of the province and that’s continuing to advance crops quite quickly across many areas.
We did see localized thunderstorms across some areas of the province though and that did result in some significant precipitation for some areas of the province. Winds and rain associated with those did result in some crop lodging as well so we’re seeing the impacts continuing with excess moisture in areas of the province and that’s having an impact on the yield potentials that we’re seeing in those areas as well.
It’s not across the whole entire province of course but we are seeing isolated areas within all the regions that are being impacted by precipitation that we’ve been getting over the last month it seems like. It is impacting crop growth, it is impacting the stand establishment in those impacted areas so in some cases we are seeing yields limited by those excess moisture conditions.
At the same time though we are hearing reports from other areas of the province, not as severely impacted by the excess moisture, that growing conditions have been good and their crops are rated in good condition so we do see some variability across the province this year and most of it is related to how much precipitation the various areas have received. ~ Pam de Rocquigny, Manitoba Agriculture
De Rocquigny says that the wet conditions have been conducive to disease. She notes diseases typically like warm moist conditions and we’ve see those so producers have been scouting for disease pressure in their cops and have been applying fungicides where warranted.
