Farmscape for September 1, 2017

Saskatchewan Agriculture reports crop yields this year are turning out to be higher than expected and crop quality is much better than last year.
Saskatchewan Agriculture released its weekly crop report for the period from August 22 to 28 yesterday.
Brent Flaten, an Integrated Pest Management Specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, says the dry week really helped the harvest move along and 26 percent of the crop is now in the bin, compared to the five year average of 16 percent.

Clip-Brent Flaten-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
Crop quality is generally a lot better than last year with all the disease and rain and bleaching and fusarium that we had last year in the cereals so the quality is up a lot so far at least.
There's some issues in the south with the kernels not filling, for example light durum or wheat depending on how it filled.
Yields are generally pretty good out there.
We've got some yield estimates but they vary a lot from the south to the north.
There's some generally average to above average yields out there right now and even in some areas in the southern part of the province where it was an extremely dry summer the yields are better than they were expecting.
It's still below average in those areas but better than what some people were thinking.
Of course there are some wrecks out there due to the dry conditions but it's extremely variable.
In one spot they may have gotten rain and seven miles down the road they didn't receive the thundershowers so it's hard to get a real good feel for yields but we've got some estimates out there.

Flaten says harvest is most advanced in the south and as you move north less of the harvest is complete.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.

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