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By Alice McFarlane

Crop Report

Weather dampens harvest progress

Sep 5, 2019 | 1:23 PM

Farmers are looking for a long stretch of warm, dry weather.

Harvest progress has been slow with frequent rain and cool temperatures.

Province wide only 11 per cent of the crop is in the bin. The five year average for this time of year is 28 per cent.

Andrew Hawrysh farms south west of Redberry Lake. The west central region is at seven per cent combined.

“To this point we’ve taken off our peas. They’ve been off for a couple of weeks. We’re getting into some feed barley which, looking at the sky, I think were just going to get at it and put it in aeration and try and make some more progress because you just don’t know what moisture is coming ahead.”

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Hawrysh said the season started very dry so he’s happy with the quality and yields.

“High thirties, for the moisture regime for the year, a person can’t complain.” Hawrysh said.

Rosetown area farmer Jim Wickett said its been a slow start.

“It’s just nicely getting going in this area. “We’ve had a lot of, I call them nuisance rains, where there has been one tenth to a half a tenth overnight.”

Wickett said frost is still a concern. He says any significant freeze events in the next two weeks would be devastating for canola crops.

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