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Late Season Manitoba Crops in Need of Moisture
Anne Kirk - Manitoba Agriculture

Farmscape for August 30, 2017

Manitoba Agriculture reports the later season crops in much of the province are still in need of rain.
Manitoba Agriculture released its weekly crop report Monday.
Anne Kirk, a Cereal Crop Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, reports the winter cereal and pea harvest is complete in most areas, harvest continues in spring cereals and the canola harvest is just starting in some regions while swathing and pre-harvest applications are just finishing up in others.

Clip-Anne Kirk-Manitoba Agriculture:
Winter wheat yields are ranging from 50 to 80 bushels per acre and fall rye 75 to 110 bushels per acre.
The winter wheat and fall rye both have good quality.
We didn't see much in terms of fusarium head blight in the winter wheat so that's one of the reasons the quality is good, due to those dry conditions around flowering time.
We did have some winter kill especially in the eastern region of the province for winter wheat so we didn't harvest as many acres as were seeded and some of the yields for winter wheat were a little bit lower than people would have liked due to some of the winter kill and tough winter conditions.
Spring wheat is yielding 50 to 95 bushels per acre, barley 75 to 120 bushels per acre, oats at 100 to 180 bushels per acre.
Quality is really good and we're not seeing a lot of issues with things like fusarium head blight in spring cereal crops.
Canola so far has been yielding 40 to 60 bushels per acre but we do have limited yield reports from across the province as canola harvest is really just starting.

Kirk says, while rain fell through most of the province last week, most areas received very limited amounts so late season crops and pasture still need moisture.
She says those crops would benefit from rain because they are still filling and we are seeing some premature leaf drop and ripening of some crops in many areas due to the dry conditions.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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