Saskatchewan farmers are hoping for warm dry weather to advance harvest progress.

APAS president Todd Lewis farms southeast of Regina.

He says cool wet weather has delayed crop development and estimates harvest is about 20 percent complete in his area.

He says farmers are looking for frost-free warm weather to ripen late maturing crops.

Lewis says his farm has received close to 100 millimeters of rain in August, which helped development of later seeded durum wheat.

Western Canadian Wheat Growers chair Jim Wickett farms at Rosetown and says many crops in his area are late maturing and need warm dry weather to mature and ripen.

He says frost is a big concern in his area.

Wickett says frost in the next 2 weeks could devastate many canola and some wheat crops.

Wickett says harvest is about 5 percent complete in his area of west central Saskatchewan.

He says crop yields are mixed with root rot affecting lentils but other yields are above average.

The regional crop specialist in Yorton, Lyndon Hicks, says recent rain has delayed combining, which has just started in his area of northeast Saskatchewan.

He says many late maturing crops are susceptible to frost damage in his area.

Hicks says there is a lot of green canola in the Yorkton area because of late development due to dry spring weather.
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