Despite steady progress, harvest remains behind the five-year average.
Eleven per cent of the crop is now in the bin, up from six per cent last week. However, the five-year (2014-2018) average is 28 per cent for this time of year. Harvest operations continue to be derailed by cool, rainy weather conditions.
Producers in the southern parts of the province continue to have the most progress. Harvest is most advanced in the southwest region, where 20 per cent of the crop is now combined. That is followed by the southeast region at 16 per cent.
Meanwhile, the west-central region is at seven per cent, the northwest six per cent, the northeast four per cent, and the east-central region is at three per cent combined.
Seventy-five per cent of fall rye, 64 per cent of winter wheat, 47 per cent of field peas, 39 per cent of lentils, 12 per cent of barley, five per cent of durum, four per cent of spring wheat, and one per cent of canola is now in the bin.
Topsoil moisture conditions on cropland are rated as eight per cent surplus, 81 per cent adequate, 10 per cent short, and one per cent very short.
Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture is rated as two per cent surplus, 78 per cent adequate, 15 per cent short, and five per cent very short.
A complete version of the crop report is available online.
