Harvest held up by rain but still ahead of schedule
Farmers in Saskatchewan are nearing the halfway mark as the harvest season continues into mid September.
So far, 40 per cent of this year’s crops are now in the bin, with an added 33 per cent already swathed or ready to straight cut, according to the Saskatchewan Agriculture Crop Report. Farmers may be ahead of schedule with the five-year average around 25 per cent combined by this time of the year.
Regionally, producers in southern Saskatchewan are ahead of the provincial average.
Farmers in the east-central and northwestern regions have 22 per cent combined. Twenty per cent of harvest is done in the northeast region. Thirty-three per cent of the crop is combined in the west-central region.