Farmscape for August 7, 2026

Saskatchewan Agriculture reports hot weather over the past week has accelerated crop development across the province allowing this year's harvest to get underway.

Saskatchewan Agriculture released its crop report yesterday for the period from July 28th to August 3rd.
Agustine Osei, a Crops Extension Specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, says hot conditions over the past week in many areas across the province have caused crops to rapidly develop offsetting some of the earlier delays but combined with the dry conditions have also caused some minor to moderate damage.

Quote-Agustine Osei-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
This year we started off with a lot of moisture, where crop development was slowed due to producers not having access to the fields and cool conditions.
In the last few weeks, we've also had this hot and dry spell, which has been good for the crops in terms of their development because, despite the lack of rainfall in the past week or two, topsoil moisture is still decent and mostly rated adequate.
So, there's a lot of good moisture there and the heat and the dry conditions have benefited a lot of the early seeded crops.
The late seeded crops are the ones that are currently struggling a bit for moisture, as some moisture is going to help with grain fill.
That is where the problem might be but, generally, I think conditions have been good for crop development.
At this time of the year, most of the crops in terms of development are rated as normal.
I think the hot and dry conditions have really helped in terms of accelerating crop development.

In terms of harvest, Osei says about two percent of the crop is now off the fields, primarily the fall seeded cereals, winter wheat and fall rye as well as triticale and a small amount of spring wheat, barley and oats with most of the progress occurring in the southwest but, with the accelerated crop development, he expects harvest to be in full swing in the next few days.
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Bruce Cochrane.

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