Good Harvest Progress Last Week

Sep 30, 2014

The provincial Farm Production Advisor in Steinbach says area farmers took advantage of the warm weather last week to get a lot of crop into the bin. Earl Bargen says most of the canola and spring cereals are now in the bin.

"There's going to be the odd field still out there but I think the guys are wrapping up fast. I also saw the start of some of the soybeans coming on off on Friday and Saturday before the rain hit here on Sunday. That would definitely be the stuff that was planted earlier and maybe some of the earlier maturing lines that are out there."

Bargen says he's hearing early soybean yields in the range of 25 to 35 bushels per acre which he considers good after the year we've had.

Meanwhile, he says corn is close to full maturity but producers will need some dry weather for them to dry down for harvest.

"The fields that I monitor, the milk line is basically done and I'm starting to see that black line. That's telling me that it's physiologically mature. The rest is kind of dependent on the kind of weather we get and how fast the rest of it can dry down. If we could have held onto last week's weather for another week or two, I'm sure it would have sped things up. As far as sunflowers, I think they're kind of in that similar physiologically mature stage, or getting close."

Bargen adds winter wheat seeding is continuing but producers are getting near the end of that window. He notes one field that was seeded about two weeks ago is now in the two leaf stage.

Source: SteinbachOnline

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