Farmscape for June 29, 2018

Saskatchewan Agriculture reports the majority of crops across the province are at developing normally.
Saskatchewan Agriculture's weekly crop report, released yesterday, indicates the majority of crops across the province are in good condition.
Daphne Cruise, a crop extension specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, says about three quarters of the oilseeds and fall and spring cereal crops are at their normal stages of development for this time of year with the rest of the crops behind normal or, in some cases, ahead of normal development.

Clip-Daphne Cruise-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
65 percent of the spring wheat, 57 percent of the canola, 47 percent of the lentils and 54 percent of the peas are in good condition and condition and development typically get better as we move from the southern parts of the province more toward the northern portions of the province just because they have been getting decent rains and timely rains in the east central, northwest and northeast parts of the province.
For the most part, when it comes to crop damage, it's mostly in the southern regions because of dry conditions.
Either the crop is not growing as well as it should or it's just a thin crop and definitely some moisture there is going to be needed to help this crop along.
The other kind of damage, not a lot of diseases seem to be causing issues at this point.
Insects as well so far have been fairly quiet, with the exception of cutworms and in those areas lots of it was they would focus on the drier areas of the fields, on hilltops, on side slopes and so generally that's where we see some of the cutworm damage.
In some cases in the last couple of weeks there's been a need for warrants for control of those insects so producers have done that on a case by case basis as they scout their fields.

Cruise says producers are still watching for any significant insect issues, weed control operations are winding up on some of the later seeded crops and, as crops come into flower producers are determining whether fungicide applications are warranted.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.

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