Farmscape for September 30, 2015

Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development says preliminary indications are that the number of acres seeded to winter wheat and fall rye this year will be flat to up slightly from last year.
The planting deadline for winter wheat in Manitoba is September 15 for full crop insurance coverage and September 20 for 80 percent coverage while the deadline for fall rye is September 20 for full coverage and September 25 for 80 percent coverage.
Pam de Rocquigny, a cereal crop specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, says, based on preliminary information so far, the number of acres are expected to be flat to slightly up from last year but that could change as we get a better handle on what went into the ground.

Clip-Pam de Rocquigny-Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development:
Winter wheat and fall rye, it's just starting to emerge and there has been excellent germination and stand establishment reported to date so that's been really good news.
Depending on the area, we're either seeing acres remain kind of flat from last year's seeded acreage to maybe slightly higher where as, in the southwest region, they're actually reporting their acreage is probably higher than it was last year so a little bit of variability across the province when you look at what acres were seeded.
Typically for our winter cereal crops, particularly for our winter wheat, a large percentage of the acres are seeded into canola stubble so often the availability of that canola stubble will play a large role in terms of determining how many acres of winter wheat are planted in any given fall.
Of course we did see some acres come off early enough for winter wheat to go into.
Obviously, when producers are planning their crop choices, things come into play such as return on investment and what the rotations are for next year as well.
Those are some factors that play into how many acres of any given crop will go in.
But we did have availability of canola stubble this year so that definitely helped and, of course, there's many benefits of including winter wheat in rotations so those are some of the reasons why producers would choose to plant that crop in the fall.

De Rocquigny says there's been some good emergence to date so hopefully the crop will go into the winter in good condition.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.

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