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Table 3: Percentage Harvest Completion by Crop and Region to Aug. 15, 2023 (crops still unharvested, or negligible acres displayed as – or omitted from this table).
Crop Report, Crops, Weather

Harvest in Manitoba at three per cent, wheat crop mostly fair to good

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 14 (week 33)

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Overview  Harvest progress sits at 3 per cent complete across the province (table above), which is on-par with the 5-year average harvest progress. Winter wheat and fall rye harvest continues, with 67 per cent of acres harvested. Early yield reports for winter wheat are averaging about 60 bu/acre. Harvest has started in spring cereal crops,
Table 2: Spring wheat quality rating by region.
Crop Report, Crops, Weather

Most of agro-Manitoba comes up dry, heat diminishing potential wheat yield in areas

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 12 (week 31)

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Overview  Limited harvesting of fall rye and winter wheat began late last week. Winter cereal crops continued to dry down with producers applying pre-harvest herbicides or swathing as crop seed moisture content allowed. Harvest is expected to become more general this week if the weather cooperates. Crop condition remained good to excellent. Early yield reports
(File photo by Lorraine Stevenson)
Cereals, Crops, Markets

Oilseed crush down, grain deliveries rise in June: StatCan

Canadian grain deliveries reached a three-month high in June

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 Marketsfarm – Statistics Canada (StatCan) released its June oilseed crush and grain delivery statistics, showing a small decline for the former, but a large gain for the latter from the month before.  Oilseed processors in Canada crushed 772,345 tonnes of canola last month, as well as 139,164 tonnes of soybeans for the month of June
Table 2: Estimated MASC seeded acres by commodity at 97 per cent entered.
Crop Report, Crops, Weather

Waterhemp shows up soybeans, cereal crops drying down

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 11 (week 30)

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Overview  Reports of waterhemp showing up in soybean fields in the RM of Emerson-Franklin and in the RM of DeSalaberry. Producers are encouraged to scout for this weed and remove from fields when found. For more information please see the Manitoba Crop Pest Update July 19 edition. Winter cereal crops continued to dry down over
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets, Weather

Flax production to drop with fewer acres, dry conditions

'Prices are definitely going to be climbing'

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MarketsFarm — As with other crops on the Canadian Prairies, flax has been struggling with the hot and dry conditions across the region. That said, Scott Shiels of Grain Millers Canada at Yorkton, Sask. noted there’s very little doubt when it comes to flax prices increasing during the course of 2023. Presently, old-crop flax was
Sporadic rainfall helps some crops, majority of Manitoba soils seen optimal to dry
Crop Report, Crops, Weather

Sporadic rainfall helps some crops, majority of Manitoba soils seen optimal to dry

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 9 (week 28)

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Overview Crop development has been rapid. Fungicide application in spring wheat for fusarium head blight is complete in most regions. Canola fungicide application continues in areas where disease potential is slightly higher. Corn growth continues to progress quickly and is approaching tasseling. Sunflower fields were mostly in the R2 (early bud) to R3 (early bud
Armyworm larvae.
Crops

Armyworms invade Manitoba

Reports of fields above economic threshold are coming in from across the province

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Manitoba Agriculture entomologist John Gavloski is getting a lot of reports of armyworm damage. The crop pests are now found at economic levels across the province. “They will migrate north come springtime, and what we get is really a hit-and-miss situation,” he said. “Some years, we barely see them. Some years, it’s very localized. This year, not
Manitoba regional summary of total accumulated precipitation.
Crop Report, Crops, Weather

Crop progress surges in Manitoba, grass conditions for cattle seen fair

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 8 (week 27)

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Overview  Crop development has been rapid. Rainfall amounts varied with storms moving through the Western and Central regions bringing heavy rain and hail in isolated areas. Fungicide application in spring wheat for fusarium head blight continues as conditions and staging allows. Canola fungicide application has also started as fields reach the correct stage for application.
A health economist did a cost of illness study examining savings across Canada if people with hypertension adopted a flax-based treatment.
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Flax, pulses could reduce health care costs: researcher

Canada’s health care costs keep rising, but better health could reduce that trend

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Diets supplemented with flaxseed and pulses can reduce risk of certain diseases and thus curtail Canada’s health care spending. That was the message presented to attendees of the Manitoba Sustainable Protein Research Symposium in Winnipeg June 21. The speaker was Luc Clair, a health economist and principal investigator with the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research

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