Farmscape for September 6, 2017

Manitoba Agriculture reports harsh winter weather conditions dramatically reduced the number of harvested acres of winter wheat this fall, especially in eastern Manitoba.
Manitoba Agriculture's weekly crop report, released yesterday, indicates the harvest of fall seeded cereal crops is complete, the harvest of spring seeded cereals and canola continues and the harvest of flax, soybeans and edible beans is just starting.
Anne Kirk, a cereal crop specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says the most up to date estimates indicate 137 thousand acres of winter wheat and 75 thousand acres of fall rye were seeded last fall in Manitoba.

Clip-Anne Kirk-Manitoba Agriculture:
We did have fewer acres harvested because there were some problems with winter kill and winter injury for the winter wheat acres in particular.
Particularly in the eastern part of the province, we had a lot of winter kill.
The winter kill would have been a result of reduced snow cover on those fields and it may be because of reduced stubble or just harsh winter conditions.
In particular those freeze thaw events would be very tough on the winter cereals and would cause more winter injury and winter kill and there were a few events like that over the winter.
In terms of the actual yields for winter cereals, for fall rye the yield reports are 75 to 110 bushels per acre and winter wheat is 50 to 80 bushels per acre.
We are seeing lower yields in the winter wheat due to more winter kill this last year and winter injury.
In terms of quality for these crops, we are seeing really good quality in the fall rye and winter wheat, very little fusarium in winter wheat due to dry conditions during flowering and the numbers are really good for fall rye.

Kirk says the spring seeded cereals have been yielding well with barley ranging from 75 to 120 bushels per acre, oats from 90 to 190 and spring wheat from 55 to 100 with good quality and low levels of fusarium head blight with some reduced protein in spring wheat, due to the high yields.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.

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