Manitoba Agriculture reports rain over the past week slowed harvest in some regions but not before farmers had made substantial progress.
Manitoba Agriculture released its weekly crop report Tuesday.
Ann Kirk, a cereal crop specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says we did see various amounts of precipitation over the past week across the province, ranging from just a trace to upwards of 78 millimeters and that was in the northwest region, so moisture reserves across the province now range from optimal to wet.
Quote-Ann Kirk-Manitoba Agriculture:
The northwest, the southeast and the Interlake all saw some pretty large amounts of precipitation and some damaging winds, mostly over the weekend.
And we did also see a big jump in the amount of harvest competed over the past week.
Farmers were able to get on their land and do quite a bit of harvesting before we had some large amounts of rainfall.
If we look at specific crops, for winter cereals in the southwest, central and eastern regions we're very close to completion.
The northwest and Interlake are a bit behind at about 60 and 70 percent complete.
When it comes to spring wheat, in the central region we're estimating at about 25 percent complete, 10 percent in the southwest and five percent or so in the northwest, eastern and Interlake regions.
Then for field peas we are seeing ranges from about 40 percent to 75 percent complete of field peas across the region.