Manitoba Agriculture reports isolated rainfall and thunderstorms resulted in varying amounts of precipitation over the past week.Manitoba Agriculture released its weekly crop report yesterday.Anne Kirk, a Cereal Crop Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says isolated rainfall and thunderstorms brought variable amounts of precipitation to much of the province with each region reporting areas with zero precipitation up to 58 millimeters in the Neepawa area and some areas had hail.
Quote-Anne Kirk-Manitoba Agriculture:
We are seeing a variety of plant stages, depending on the crop type.Winter wheat and fall rye are fairly consistent across the province and would be in the grain fill stage.Corn does range from about the V5 to the V8 stage and the earliest seeded spring wheat is at anthesis.We do see spring wheat ranging from stem elongation to anthesis but I think that the majority of spring is at head emergence to anthesis.
Barley and oats also range from stem elongation to head emergence.In terms of cereals, fungicide applications for fusarium head blight are ongoing.Those would have started these past few days in spring wheat and barley and would be wrapped up for winter wheat.If we take a look at oilseeds, we do see a wide range of canola growth stages across the province due to the long seeding window.Late seeded canola ranges from about the four-leaf stage to rosette and the earliest seeded canola is at full flower.
Fungicide applications in canola have also started.Flax is up to 15 centimeters and starting to bud.If you look at pulses, field peas have started flowering in most areas.The most advanced fields would be in the R1 to R2 stage.The earliest seeded soybeans would also be in the R1 to R2 stage with the later seeded soybeans ranging from V3 to V5.
Kirk expects a big push over the next week in fungicide applications, especially in spring cereals and canola and farmers in many areas are looking for more precipitation.For more visit Farmscape.Ca.
Source : Farmscape.ca