Seeding operations are winding down after some delays in planting progress due to the recent rain.
The weekly crop report from Manitoba Agriculture says rainfall was quite variable across the province, reporting accumulations ranging from four to 74 millimeters last week.
Cereal specialist Pam de Rocquigny says they are now in the process of assessing crop injury due to excess moisture in the areas that saw heavier rain.
"We already starting to see some of those symptoms in terms of crop yellowing, especially, say in the lower areas of the fields where water has been ponding for some time now," she says. "We'll see plants that are obviously impacted, and we'll see, of course, crop death in those lower areas that have been underwater for a few days or a week, or in some cases even longer than that."
Overall, de Rocquigny still thinks the precipitation was welcome in most areas of the province, noting that amounts did vary quite a bit.
"Obviously there are some saturated fields conditions out there in many areas of the province, but then if you look up to the northwest region and the Swan Valley area, they've had really minimal precipitation since they've started seeding, so they would actually welcome some precipitation," she says.
Source : Steinbachonline