Farmers in the Yorkton area are looking for warm dry weather to resume harvest. The regional crop specialist in Yorkton, Lyndon Hicks, said the area had as much as three inches of rain last week. Hicks estimates combining at 10 to 20 percent complete in the region, and says there is still a lot of […]
The combines were rolling again this week after last weeks rain delayed harvest. The regional crop specialist in Outlook, Kaeley Kindrachuk, says harvest is at 20 percent in the Outlook district and expects an average crop. She says crop quality may be downgraded by recent wet weather. Kindrachuk says farmers need warm dry weather to […]
Saskatchewan farmers made modest harvest progress this past week. Provincial crops analyst Cory Jacob says 23 percent of the crop is in the bin, up from 18 percent last week but well behind the average of 50 percent for this date. He says some areas had up to 6 inches or 150 millmeters of […]
Saskatchewan farmers faced scattered hail damage during the first week of September. The chair of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, says there were 500 prairie hail damage claims in the first week of September, and more than 250 were from Saskatchewan. Omelchenko says the hail damage was across a wide area of the […]
Saskatchewan farmers are back on the combine after being delayed by rain for several days last week. The regional crop specialist in the southeast at Weyburn, Sherri Roberts, says some farmers were in the field as early as Saturday. She says there is some concern wheat crops will be downgraded because of the rain. She […]
Saskatchewan farmers made some harvest progress this past week despite cool wet weather. Provincial crops analyst Cory Jacob says 18 percent of the crop is in the bin, up from 11 percent last week but well behind the average of 43 percent for this date. He says crop yields so far are about average. […]
Widespread rain across the Saskatchewan grainbelt is delaying harvest and may cause some crop loss. The vice chair of SaskWheat, Scott Hepworth, says his farm at Assiniboia has had about 30 millimeters of rain since the weekend. He says “this is the kind of worst weather we could possibly dream of right now.” Rainfall has […]
Saskatchewan farmers made limited harvest progress this week, hampered by cool wet weather. The latest crop report says Saskatchewan farmers have combined 11 percent of the harvest, up from 6 percent last week. Provincial crops analyst Shannon Friesen says harvest is well behind the average of 28 percent for this date. She says farmers […]
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 […]
Despite cool wet weather, Saskatchewan farmers made some progress on harvesting the 2019 crop. Provincial crops analyst Cory Jacob says combining is 6 percent complete, up from 2 percent last week but behind the average of 16 percent for this date. He says farmers are looking for warm, dry conditions. He says hail and […]
