Crop Report – for Sep. 30, 2010

SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall limited harvest progress over the past week but many producers were able to resume harvest operations over the weekend. Cereal harvest ranges from 35 to 60 per cent complete with more progress seen south of Highway #1. Yields are reported to be average with quality being reduced because of the wet conditions.

Futures Rise On Fallout From Frosts – for Sep. 23, 2010

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform experienced a significant push upward during the week ended Sept. 17, with much of the upward momentum linked to the frost which hit much of the Prairies. The frost which occurred overnight both Thursday and Friday of last week was said to have been significant, as


Crop Report – for Sep. 23, 2010

SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall throughout the southwest region limited harvest to a few days last week. Frost was recorded with temperatures dropping as low as -3 C. Cereal crop harvest ranges between 40 to 65 per cent complete. Many acres have been taken off tough with producers drying grain. Quality of all cereal crops remaining in

Crop Report – for Sep. 16, 2010

SOUTHWEST Rainfall over the past week limited harvest to only a couple of days. In most cases producers were harvesting damp to wet grain. Harvests of cereal crops vary from 70 per cent complete in the Killarney area and 40 to 50 per cent north of Souris, to less than 10 per cent harvested north



In Brief… – for Sep. 16, 2010

Few hail claims seen Hail activity remained relatively low in Manitoba with fewer than 200 new claims in the past two weeks, the Canadian Crop Hail Association said Friday. The province’s claim total for the season is now near 2,600, the hail insurers’ group said. Most claims in the past two weeks followed storms Sept.






Soybeans A Bright Spot – for Sep. 9, 2010

Manitoba soybean growers are poised to harvest a great crop, God willing and the creek don’t rise. Despite the heavy rains this spring that destroyed or damaged cereals and canola across the province, there will be average to above-average soybean yields barring an early frost or other calamities, Brent Reid, a farm production manager with