According to G3 Canada, harvest progress on the Prairies is at about 40 per cent complete.
Weather and crop specialist Bruce Burnett says usually by this time of year, harvest is 50 per cent done or more, but producers have faced quite a bit of rain delays recently.
"Alberta is the farthest behind right now," Burnett says, "they've had a tough time getting going in a lot of areas with these rains, and Saskatchewan was at about average at the beginning of (last) week, but of course they're going to flip behind. Manitoba is a bit ahead of where we would normally be at, with about 65 per cent of the crop now harvested."
Burnett says cereal and canola harvest are winding up in Manitoba, which could indicate more waiting for producers as corn and soybean crops are not mature enough yet to come off the field.
Meanwhile, the US spring wheat harvest is nearing completion, with reasonable results in the northern plains of the U.S. Burnett notes there was a drop in spring wheat acreage in that area this year, but yields have held up. He talks more about the quality of the crop.
Source : Portageonline