Farmscape for June 28, 2017

Manitoba Agriculture reports crop growth and development in most areas of the province are looking good.
Manitoba Agriculture released its weekly crop report Monday.
Anne Kirk, a Cereal Crop Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, reports spring planting went well and, with the dry weather, crops were planted in a timely fashion.

Clip-Anne Kirk-Manitoba Agriculture:
Throughout most of the province the early seeded canola is just coming into flower at this time.
In all areas of the province there was some canola that was seeded a bit later into dryer soils so that canola is still in the seedling or rosette stage.
For cereal crops, in some of the central region, we're seeing some heading starting in cereal crops just in the past couple of days.
Crops throughout Manitoba in terms of cereals, we're seeing mostly at the tillering stage and some later seeded cereals would still be in the seedling stage.
In terms of corn and soybeans, most of the soybeans would be in the one to third trifoliate stage, corn would likely be anywhere from the three to eight leaf stage and we some things similar with sunflowers, about the four to ten leaf stage for sunflowers.
In terms of flax we're seeing anywhere from five to 30 centimeters tall at this point.
I would say that, from the reports I've gotten yield potential looks really well in cereal crops and canola as they've been really doing really with the cooler temperatures that we've been having the last couple of weeks.
Development has slowed for the warm season crops such as sunflowers, soybeans and corn so I can't really comment on the yield potential but so far all crops are doing well and we're not seeing a lot of disease or insect issues at this point so yield potential is good across the province.

Kirk says precipitation over the past couple of weeks has ranged from five to 50 millimeters but, with the exception of the Pas which has been very wet, most areas are not seeing water laying the fields, except for low spots.
She says most areas looking good in terms of crop growth and development.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.

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