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Saskatchewan Crop Development Well Ahead of Normal
Shannon Friesen - Saskatchewan Agriculture

Farmscape for July 8, 2016

A Regional Crop Specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture reports crop development across the province is running ahead of the long term average and well ahead of last year.
Saskatchewan Agriculture released its crop report for the period from June 28 to July 4 yesterday.
Shannon Friesen, a regional Crop Specialist, reports crops are developing rapidly in much of the province and growing conditions have been optimal in most areas.

Clip-Shannon Friesen-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
Crops in the province are actually developing quite quickly this year.
Most of that is due to us being able to get into the field earlier than normal and of course we've had very warm conditions and very timely rain as well.
Overall we've heard from our producers that we're anywhere from about a week to even two weeks ahead of schedule to where we would normally be for this time of year.
Certainly when we compare it to last year, of course last year we had a lot of moisture concerns as we did not really see any significant rain until the latter part of July so crop development this year is much healthier, crops are a lot more robust, yields are anticipated to be average if not above average as well.
Long term we are still well ahead of where we would typically be.
When we compare this year to last year at this time, there's still a lot of optimism out there.
Producers are keeping busy out in the fields.
I think, now that we have some rain, we just need some heat and we'll likely start harvest probably in the next couple of weeks.

Friesen acknowledges there has been weather related crop damage, with the high humidity and moisture there have been issues with disease and producers have started to spray for insects.
She notes it seems there a storm somewhere in the province every day or every second day resulting in damage due to localized flooding, there's been quite a bit of hail and, while most crops are expected recover, some won't.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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