Oat crop reaches the milk stage, and the fall rye harvest could begin soon

This week's crop report shows the recent heat has really helped to advance the crop.

Dennis Lange, Manitoba's soybean specialist and puts together the weekly crop report and says fall rye is now in the late dough to dry down stage, with harvest potentially beginning in about ten days. Winter wheat is at the hard dough stage with some dry down starting to occur. 

He says when you look at corn, soybean and dry bean crops things have really started to pick up with the heat.

"In the last week, the soybeans have really come along and moved. The IDC (Iron Deficiency Chlorosis ) symptoms have kind of dissipated for the most part."

Soybeans are in the R1 to R2 stage and have seen rapid growth over the last week.

Generally, field pea fields are looking good and are in the R3 to R4 stage, however, fields affected by the excess moisture are doing poorly, most notably in the Central and Eastern Regions.

Sunflower stands range from very late vegetative to the early R2 growth stage, flax fields are at first flower to full flower with overall conditions rated as good, other than in the flooded or saturated fields. 

The most advanced corn fields have started to tassel with most crops between V8 and V10.

Spring wheat crops are between anthesis and hard dough and are rated as mostly fair to good, with 5 to 10 per cent of the crop reported as poor in the Southwest, Northwest, Central, and Interlake regions.

Most oat and barley crops have now reached the milk stage.

Early-seeded canola fields are now pod-filling with producers seeing increased flower blast due to the heat.