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By Alice McFarlane

2024 Manitoba Crop report

Manitoba farmers enjoy a successful harvest

Oct 24, 2024 | 5:27 PM

Most of Manitoba’s farmers are happy with this year’s harvest.

Manitoba Agriculture released its final crop report of the year. Pulse and soybean specialist and editor of the provincial crop report Dennis Lange said yields and quality of the crops were above the five-year average.

Lange said spring wheat yields were anywhere from 65 to 95 bushels per acre with protein levels are 13 and a half to 16 per cent.

“How that yield compares to previous years, typically the five-year average would be 60 bushels so we were kind of in that mix for the five-year average,” Lange added.

For other crops like barley, yields ranged from ranged from 80 to 120 bushels per acre which is above the five-year average of 74 bushels/acre.

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Lange said oats was reported at 110 to 180 bushels/acre with light test weights in some areas.

“There were some 37-pound oats but a lot of it was above 40, in that 40 pounds per bushel range,” he said. “Our five-year average for oats is 102 bushels/acre, so we’re above that for sure.”

Corn yields were anywhere from 120 to 180 bushels/acre with the average in the 150 to 180 range.

Turning to the oilseeds, canola yields this year were variable across the province ranging from 25 to 65 bushels/acre.

Lange said the pulses, soybeans in particular, yields range anywhere from 34 to 65 bushels an acre this year and the provincial average is expected to be somewhere in that 40 bushel per acre range. The five-year average for soybeans is 35.

Harvest is sitting at 95 per cent complete across the province.

Overall it’s been a very good fall, according to Lange.

“It’s nice to be sitting at almost the end of October with all of the crops, with the exception corn and sunflowers, in the bin,” he said.

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