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Saskatchewan Harvest One to Two Weeks Away
Daphne Cruise - Saskatchewan Agriculture

Farmscape for July 22, 2016

Saskatchewan Agriculture anticipates the 2016 harvest will begin to get underway within the next one to two weeks.
Saskatchewan Agriculture released its Crop Report for the period from July 12 to July 18 yesterday.
Daphne Cruise, a cropping management specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, reports the biggest issue has been excess moisture.

Clip-Daphne Cruise-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
Across the province in general crops are developing normally for this time of year.
53 percent of the fall cereals, 69 percent f the oilseeds, 67 percent of the spring cereals and 65 percent of the pulses are at their normal stages of development for this time of year.
That being said, we do have a lot of the crop that is also ahead of normal when it comes to development.
Basically we got an early start to seeding with some pretty decent  moisture and good seeding conditions throughout the spring time.
Now into July many producers have indicated that some of the crop is a week to 10 days ahead of normal compared to the average.
That being said, the last two to three weeks, we've had some significant rainfall throughout most of the province and in some areas have been affected with too much of it and so there are some areas that are experiencing excess moisture and it's starting to take a toll, especially on some of the pulse crops, peas and lentils in particular.
Other than that there are areas of the province that still have mentioned that the crops are looking quite good.
We are starting to see some of the winter cereals turn as well as some of the earlier seeded lentil and pea crops.
We have been getting some indications that some of those pulse crops may be desiccated within a week or so.
Also some spring cereals have started to turn so I suspect in the next week to two weeks there will be some harvest happening on the prairies here in Saskatchewan.

Cruise says the two to three weeks of heavy rainfall has raised some concerns with regards to quality and yield potential with lentils and peas expected to suffer the most.
She says time will tell and producers will have a clearer indication of yield and quality once they get into the harvest.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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