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74 Per Cent Of Crop Harvested, Ag Ministry Says

Thanks to warm and dry weather over the last week, an estimated 74 per cent of Saskatchewan’s crop is in the bin, the provincial agriculture ministry’s weekly crop report says.
 
Another 19 per cent has been swathed or is ready to straight-cut, it adds.
 
To put that in perspective, the five-year (2010-2014) average for this time of year is 71 per cent combined and 20 per cent swathed or ready to straight-cut.
 
Regionally, producers in the southeast part of the province are most advanced, with 88 per cent of the crop combined, with the southwest having 85 per cent done. “Seventy per cent of the crop is combined in the west-central region; 66 per cent in the east-central region; 57 per cent in the northwest and 59 per cent in the northeast.”
 
Broken down by crop, 87 per cent of mustard, 79 per cent of durum, 77 per cent of barley, 72 per cent of spring wheat, 70 per cent of canola, 46 per cent of soybeans and 33 per cent of flax have been combined.
 
Source : LeaderPost

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