Despite the setbacks of a wet spring, harvest is progressing at a rate slightly less than the five-year provincial average of 5 per cent, with 3 per cent of the crop combined, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly crop report for the period ending Aug. 15.
Winter wheat is 21 per cent combined, fall rye is at 30 per cent, lentils are at 11 per cent and field peas are 10 per cent combined. Canola is at 12 per cent swathed, six per cent of mustard is swathed and one per cent of spring wheat, oats and barley has been swathed.
The average yield on irrigated alfalfa and alfalfa/brome stands is 2.9 tons per acre, and the average greenfeed yield is 2.2 tons per acre on dryland and 3.4 tons per acre on irrigated stands, figures that compare very favourably with the five-year average provincial hay yield for both dryland alfalfa and alfalfa/brome stands at 1.9 tons per acre (2006 to 2010).
Across the province, topsoil moisture on cropland is rated as eight per cent surplus, 82 per cent adequate and 10 per cent short. Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture is rated as four per cent surplus, 80 per cent adequate and 16 per cent short.
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