By Mat Barrett

‘We’ll pray that Mother Nature cooperates with us’: Ag Minister talks crop conditions, harvest outlook

Aug 4, 2020 | 2:00 PM

SASKATCHEWAN – Agriculture Minister David Marit said crops in Saskatchewan are in pretty good shape.

Harvesting will begin in several weeks and Marit is hoping for good combining weather:

“The heat is welcome for some of the pulse guys, because the pulses were getting a little wet, and the heat sure helps them and they like to stress,” Marit said. “And the northwest we know has had an abundant amount of rain so the warm weather is very receptive for those folks to dry things out and hopefully bring their crops along.”

Marit farms near Fife Lake and said last harvest it didn’t want to stop raining so hopefully that doesn’t repeat.

“That’s what we have to hope for is Mother Nature cooperating with us, and we know she can,” he said. “And if we can get a nice harvest and a nice fall, the crop comes off and the quality is good and then obviously then we start moving the product to market and obviously it’s a lot easier to sell when you cut the top two or three grades of quality anyway, so hopefully that all works out for us and we’ll pray that Mother Nature cooperates with us.”

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The latest crop report released on Thursday, July 30 said that warm weather has cereals ripening, while earlier seeded crops are starting to mature.

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