Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – Manitoba Agriculture said the provincewide harvest was at eight per cent complete, according to the department’s latest crop report released on Aug. 27.
The largest advances were with fall rye and winter wheat at 87 per cent finished each. The combining of field peas was pegged at 59 per cent done, followed by barley at 22 per cent, spring wheat at 13 per cent, oats at six per cent and canola at three per cent.
By region, the central was furthest along at 16 per cent finished, with the southwest at six per cent, the Interlake at four per cent, and the east and northwest at three per cent.
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As for yields, Manitoba Agriculture said fall rye and winter wheat were coming in at 40 to 110 bushels per acre. Spring wheat was pulling in 25 to 90 bu./ac., oats 80 to 180, barley 90 to 115, and peas at 30 to 65. Also, the planting of winter crops was underway in some of the regions.
The province’s corn were in the silking to milk stage, with the earliest planted corn in the dough stage.
Most of Manitoba’s canola was either receiving pre-harvest applications or being swathed, while the late-seeded canola was flowering to pod-fill. There continued to be issues with flea beetles and lygus. Sunflowers have completed flowered and in the R7 stage. The flax was in the brown capsule stage with the earliest planted in the seed ripe stage.
Soybeans were in the R5 to R6 stages.
The department said recent warm weather and rain have improved forage growth in the province. Dairy producers have made their second cut of alfalfa with good yields, along with some reports of a third cut in the central region. The beef producers completed their first hay harvest, and the second cut of tame hay was either finished or ongoing.
The most rain in the province fell in the southwest and northwest regions, with Minitonas getting nearly 78 millimeters while Birtle had about 68.
