(Resource News International) — The return of drier weather, along with warmer
temperatures, has allowed producers in Alberta to virtually wrap
up their 2007 harvest operations, according to a crop specialist
with the Alberta Ag-Info Centre.
“Producers finally got some drier weather to work with and
there are only now pockets of crops left to be harvested,” Harry
Brook said. He pegged harvest activities in the province at 95 per cent complete.
Some of the crops to be harvested were left there
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content in canola, Brook said.
He said harvest operations in the northern Peace River
region were also generally finished with only a few fields left
to be combined still.
Yields of the various crops harvested to date were estimated
by Brook as average.
Soil moisture conditions in Alberta were rated as adequate
but producers were still hoping for additional moisture to
replenish dry sub-soil conditions before the soils freeze up for
the winter, he said.
Fall fertilizer applications were in full swing where
weather has allowed, Brook said. He noted more producers in
the province have decided to apply fertilizer now, rather than in
The winter wheat and fall rye crops in Alberta were in good
condition, but were in need of extra precipitation ahead of the
winter freeze-up, Brook said.
