Farmscape for October 6, 2023

Saskatchewan Agriculture reports 95 percent of this year's crop has now been harvested.
Saskatchewan Agriculture released its weekly crop report yesterday.
Matt Struthers, the provincial cereal crop specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, says this past week was a little bit slow as lots of rainy weather, dewy mornings kept producers out of the fields until the afternoons so only a small percentage of crop was taken off so we're sitting at 95 percent, up from 91 percent last week.

Quote-Matt Struthers-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
We'll start with yields.
There's a lot of variability with yields.
If you look at the tables, obviously the hardest hit areas were the southwest and west central.
They didn't have a lot of rainfall.
They started of dry, they were dry all year.
They just really didn't get the moisture when they needed it.
Then it was unbelievably hot during that flowering period for those crops and the yields reflect that.
There are certainly some good stories across the province, some precipitation that was received at the right time, especially in the east and up in the northern region, and the crops coming off are surprising a lot of those producers.
That's a really promising thing to see so, a lot of variability across those yields.
When we talk to grades, we only asked for spring wheat this week.
We'll be asking for all other crops in the next couple of weeks.
For spring wheat, it came in at 57 percent grade one, 37 percent grade two and seven percent grade three, so very strong grades for spring wheat.
It was a little bit lower than previous years but still higher than the ten-year average.
It's a really promising thing to see, especially for those producers who had good yields and good grades, they'll be very happy.

Struthers says as things dry up farmers will be back on the fields.
He says mostly canola and flax are left to come off and, in many cases, producers are looking for a frost to come through to dry down those late flax and canola fields.
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Bruce Cochrane.

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