Farmscape for August 18, 2016

Manitoba Agriculture reports crops across the province are generally at or above the five year average while quality is average to below average for the majority of crops.
Manitoba Agriculture released its final crop report for the 2016 growing season yesterday.
Pam de Rocquigny, a Cereal Crop Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture says, due to some extreme weather, generally yields are at or slightly above the five year average and, as the result of the wet harvest, the quality of the most crops is average to below average.

Clip-Pam de Rocquigny-Manitoba Agriculture:
So for crop yields, just generally speaking, they were either at or slightly above our five years averages for most crop types.
Having said that there are lower than average yields for various crop types that were reported in some areas of the province.
Those decreases in yield were largely due to weather events such as excess moisture.
We had some wind storms that resulted in some lodging and some stalk breakage and, of course, we've seen a higher number of hail claims that would impact yields.
As well we've seen higher disease pressure.
That was noted in many crop types in 2016 as well.
In some cases yields were surprisingly good but at the same time they weren't record breaking by any stretch for this year.
In regards to quality, the majority of crop types, the quality is average to probably below average.
We've seen a wet harvest period that resulted in some downgrading due to weathering and disease pressure for some crops types as well resulted in downgrading.
So quality and yields are both variable across the province.

Provincially, the harvest is estimated at 92% complete with 99 percent of the cereal crops and field peas, 95 percent of the canola and edible beans, 88 percent of the soybeans, 50 percent of the flax and 20 to 25 percent of the sunflowers in the bins.
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