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Limited Moisture Impacts Yield Potential of Early Season Crops
Anne Kirk - Manitoba Agriculture

Farmscape for August 16, 2017

Manitoba Agriculture reports a lack of rain will reduce overall yields on the early season crops while the later season crops still have an opportunity to recover if we get rain.
Manitoba Agriculture released its weekly crop report Monday.
Anne Kirk, a cereal Crop Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says much of the province has experienced a lack of rainfall.

Clip-Anne Kirk-Manitoba Agriculture:
Harvest has begun in winter cereals, spring cereals and field peas.
Canola is starting to be swathed and they're having pre-harvest pesticide is being applied.
We have some reports of yields in the southwest and central region.
In the central region of the province we're seeing fall rye yielding 75 to 110 bushels per acre and winter wheat at 50 to 80 bushels per acre with lower yields in winter wheat due to winter injury.
Barley yields are ranging from 80 to 110 bushels per acre and oats from 130 to 170.
In the southwest region we don't have any yields but the winter wheat and fall rye are slightly below average yielding, also due to winter kill and barley yielding close to long term averages.
Most of the province has been quite dry.
We have had rainfall throughout the province over the last week but it's been pretty sporadic and most of the province has had relatively low levels of rainfall and more rainfall is needed in many areas of the province.
We are seeing specific areas that are drier than others, which can be seen on the crop weather reports maps.
At this point the lack of moisture would have reduced the yield potential of some of the earlier season crops.
The later season crops still have a chance to keep up some of that yield potential if we do see some significant rainfall.

Kirk says farmers who are harvesting cereal crops will be looking for some dry weather while those who have soybeans, corn and sunflowers in the fields will be looking for some rain.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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