The lack of precipitation and prolonged warm weather has continued to take a toll on crops across Saskatchewan.
Because of those conditions Mother Nature has created, it's causing crops to advance prematurely with very low yields.
According to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture's weekly crop report released yesterday, 36 per cent of fall cereals, 29 per cent of spring cereals, 25 per cent of oilseed crops and 30 per cent of pulse crops are ahead of their normal stages of development for this time of year.
"The stress the crops have been under for a long-time, it's causing the crops to realize that they likely don't have enough moisture and resources to get them to the end of the season," Matt Struthers, a crop extension specialist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, said. "That's why we're seeing flowering, crops flowered really early and now they're starting to seed and pod out and that's because they just don't think they have what it takes to get to the end."