Winter cereal harvest is complete in Manitoba, as producers continue to move ahead with harvest operations amid some moisture challenges.
Manitoba Agriculture reports winter wheat yields range from 50 to 100 bushels per acre, with an estimated provincial average of 75 bushels per acre, and reportedly good quality and variable protein levels.
Cereal specialist Pam de Rocquigny says there was a lot of disease pressure on crops this year, and they've started to assess some samples for fusarium damage, and so far, reported damage is low.
"Generally I think what we're hearing is [fusarium-damaged kernels] (FDK) is on the lower end. So even though we're seeing symptoms of fusarium head blight on the field, it doesn't seem to translating too much into the winter wheat harvest. We've been hearing some variable levels of fusarium in our spring wheat and our barley crops, but once again, that's going to be really variable depending on the growing season, the precipitation, it could vary by variety as well," she says.
Source : Portageonline