Farmscape for July 16, 2018

Saskatchewan Agriculture reports a mixed bag of factors have resulted in crops losses and reduced yield potential in crops throughout the province this year.
Saskatchewan Agriculture released its weekly crop report Thursday.
Brent Flaten, a Crops Extension Specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, says the majority of crops are in fair to excellent condition but condition varies depending on moisture.

Clip-Brent Flaten-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
There's been some damage, certainly wind damage, wind whipping of the crops.
The heat has been hard on the flowering canola right now.
Very warm conditions causing some heat blast on the canola and everything from flooding to extremely dry conditions limiting crop growth and pasture and hayland yields.
As far as diseases, people are spraying fro sclerotinia in canola and fusarium head blight in the areas where they've had moisture.
Those diseases, you have to spray fungicide prior to seeing damage so we haven't seen damage for those particular diseases yet but some people are spraying to try to suppress those diseases.
Also leaf spot diseases in some of the areas have been eating up some of the leaves and root rot has been an issue in some of the areas as well.
Grasshoppers have also been reported in some of the drier areas, especially in hayland or pasture as well as people concerned about them in lentils and in flax where there's very low economic thresholds.

Flaten says in some cases crop development is a little behind but the majority of crops are at their normal stage of development.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.

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