Manitoba Agriculture reports hot dry weather has result in premature ripening of some crops and reduced yields.
Manitoba Agriculture released its weekly crop report yesterday.
Dennis Lange, a pulse and soybean specialist with Manitoba Agriculture and editor of the provincial crop report, says a lack of moisture is a concern in some regions.
Quote-Dennis Lange-Manitoba Agriculture:
We're looking in the cereal side, mostly in the fall rye and winter wheat that harvest has begun and is going in most areas right now.
We're anywhere from 30 to 60 percent complete in some areas and some areas with few acres even up to 80 percent complete on the fall cereals.
There's been a little bit of spring wheat harvested in some of the central region.
That's mainly just due to the drier conditions that we saw this past summer that prematurely ripened the crop so yield reports are lower than what we are accustomed to in previous years.
We're hearing in the 30s as far as numbers go on spring wheat.
We'll kind of see how that progresses as we get more into harvest in the next week or so.
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