(Resource News International) — The sustained period of dry weather seen late last week and through the weekend provided producers across Western Canada with an opportunity for significant harvest progress, according to an official with the Canadian Wheat Board.
“The good weather conditions allowed producers in Manitoba and Alberta to generally get most of the crops that had been left on the fields off and into the bins,” said Bruce Burnett, director of the CWB’s weather and crop surveillance department.
In Saskatchewan, good harvest progress was also made in a number of regions, but there were still a couple of concentrated areas in which another week to 10 days of clear and warm weather will be required to finish up harvest operations, he said.
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“I would estimate that in most areas of Saskatchewan the harvest progressed about 10 per cent from the level seen last week,” Burnett said. “However, there are some isolated areas in which the ground and the crops are too wet and need a few more days to dry down.”
The weather forecast for the early part of this week was seen as being conducive for further good harvest progress, Burnett said. Producers in Saskatchewan, as a result, were seen making some further progress in getting the crop into the bin.
However, a system forecast to be moving through the Prairies Thursday was expected to result in precipitation in the form of snow and slow the remaining harvest activities.
Normally, harvest operations in Western Canada would be complete by this time, Burnett acknowledged.
“To actually be getting crops off in the middle of November is a very good thing, but is on the rare side,” he said.
