Harvest slightly behind, dry weather still needed
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Despite extended periods of rainy weather, harvest in the northeastern region is only slightly behind the provincial average.
The province as a whole is just ahead of the five-year average of eight per cent, with nine per cent of the 2016 crop combined. Twenty-one per cent of the crop is swathed or ready to straight-cut.
In Prince Albert and area, three per cent was harvested in spite of wet fields and continued showers. Sixty-seven per cent of winter wheat, two per cent of spring wheat and durum, 12 per cent of barley, 13 per cent of lentils and 23 per cent of field peas have been combined and 19 per cent of all canola crops have been swathed.
While topsoil moisture conditions have improved, with 25 per cent of fields rated as surplus and 75 per cent adequate, crop damage is still attributed to localized flooding, as well as lodging and disease.
