Weather conditions see crops quickly advance, disease, insect pressures low

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for July 24, 2017

Hot and humid weather conditions across much of the province are advancing crops quickly. Winter cereals and some early seeded spring cereals are starting to turn. Areas in the Southwest, Northwest and Central regions are well below normal precipitation and would benefit from rain. Thunderstorms brought damaging winds and hail to some areas of Manitoba.





Fusarium head blight risk maps

Fusarium head blight risk maps

Fusarium head blight risk maps are posted daily courtesy of Manitoba Agriculture. During the winter wheat flowering period up to the end of the flowering period for spring wheat, these risk maps will be provided for you here. The map above shows the current risk for fusarium head blight development based on the previous seven days of temperature and






Hard red spring wheat bids correct lower

Hard red spring wheat bids correct lower

Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada ran into some technical resistance during the week ended July 7, as the rally that had sustained a meteoric rise in wheat country subsided on ideas the gains were overdone. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were down by $17-$22 per