Farmers look for warmth with harvest nearing
The northeast portion of Saskatchewan, much like the rest of the province, is hoping for warm weather to continue to get crops into harvest mode.
“It looks like we are getting that warm weather right now so hopefully it can continue into harvest season. Not as much rain has been recorded in the region in the last couple of weeks which has helped relieve some of the moisture stress on some of the crops particularly south of Prince Albert and north of PA which for a lot of the season they have had that excess moisture stress,” said Daphne Cruise, regional crop specialist for Saskatchewan Agriculture.
According to Cruise, some of the crops have, in many cases, been drowned out around the sloughs. “But after that the crop condition looks pretty good. Producers are indicating that things look not to bad and they are hoping to get into the harvest season in the next couple weeks.”
Most crop reporters are indicating that producers are about 10 days to two weeks behind normal for this time of year, but Cruise said warm weather should help the process.