The Manitoba harvest is now more than three-quarters complete, with the corn crop starting to come off.
Tuesday’s crop report put the overall harvest in the province at 76% complete, up from 64% for the week earlier and the five-year average. The spring cereals, spring wheat, oats, and barley, are all now at least 97% in the bin, with canola and dry beans at 78% and 84% done, respectively. The soybean harvest is now 41% complete, the report said.
Meanwhile, many corn fields have reached physiological maturity and are drying down, with the harvest underway in the Central region where approximately 5% of the acres are off. Early corn yield reports vary widely, ranging from 80 to 200 bu/acre depending on how much moisture the crop received throughout the growing season. Approximately 80% of silage corn fields have been harvested, with yields ranging from 13 to 15 tonne/acre.
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