Farmers in the Northeast running behind schedule
Harvest slowed over the weekend with wet and cool weather in many areas of the province, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report.
Producers are hitting the five-year-average nearly on the head with 84 per cent of crops now in the bin, up 10 per cent from last week, and 12 per cent swathed or ready to straight cut.
Regionally, producers in the southeast are furthest advanced, having 94 per cent of the crop combined, compared to 74 per cent in the northeast.
When it comes to individual crops, 86 per cent of barley, 85 per cent of durum, 84 percent of spring wheat, 81 per cent of canola, 79 per cent of soybeans, 61 per cent of chickpeas, 47 per cent of flax and 45 per cent of canary seed have been combined.