Impact on Crops from Friday Frost

May 13, 2016

It was a frosty morning in many areas of Saskatchewan. Farmers will be out checking their crops, but generally any real damage is visible in about 3 to 5 days.

Just what kind of impact the frost will have will depend on if the crop has emerged.

World Weather Inc Agri-Meteorologist Drew Lerner takes a look at some of the cool spots:

"Temperatures dropped out this morning, near dawn readings were around minus 3 in Kindersley and Val Marie and many other areas in the area of minus 2 to 0. Those are not the official lows but they are pretty close and some crop damage will likely result. Tomorrow morning might be colder still, a strong surface high pressure centre in expected to centre over western portion of the province."

Temperatures are forecasted to drop to -3 or -5 tonight in Swift Current, Kindersley and Humboldt.

Regional Crop Specialist John Ippolito says Cereals tend to handle the frost better than Canola.

"Canola by far would be the worst crop that we can have up in the event of a frost, mainly because the growing point is exposed with canola. With cereals, what I expect if we see any frost damage will be a frost banding on the leaf which is a horizontal band where the cells froze."

Source : Discoverestevan

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