Farmscape for September 9, 2016

Manitoba Agriculture reports the continued rainfall has taken a toll on both the yields and the quality of crops in some regions of the province.
Manitoba Agriculture's weekly crop report, released yesterday, indicates good harvest progress was made during the past week but wet weather over the weekend in some areas was a factor and while the harvest will resume quickly in areas that received lower amounts of rain, field operations will be delayed in areas that received significant amounts.
Pam de Rocquigny, a Cereal Crop Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says rainfall has been variable across the province which has result in inconsistent crop yields and quality.

Clip-Pam de Rocquigny-Manitoba Agriculture:
In terms of yields, we've definitely seen variability across the province in terms of the reported yields we've seen so far.
A lot of that has to do with the moisture received during the growing season.
Those areas that received significant amounts of rainfall throughout the season definitely did see an impact on some of their yield potentials.
We've also been seeing impact of recent rains on the quality of the crop as well.
Typically we love to see warm dry weather throughout the harvest time period so that the quality of the crop remains high.
Unfortunately these recent rainfalls that we have see across some areas of the province have resulted in some downgrading due to weathering.
Unfortunately we are seeing maybe an impact of these wet weather conditions at harvest time having an impact on the quality of the crop as well.
Having said that though there was quite a few spring cereal acres that were off prior to the rainfall in some areas.
Much like yields in terms of quality we're seeing some variability out there related to weather and, in terms of spring wheat and some barley crops, Fusarium Head Blight is also having an impact on the quality too.

De Rocquigny says the field pea harvest is virtually complete, the canola harvest is well advanced, in some areas the spring cereal harvest is complete and the flax and corn silage harvests have started in some areas.
She adds the planting of fall rye and winter wheat is also underway.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.

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