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By Alice McFarlane

2025 Manitoba Crop report

Rain replenished topsoil moisture but delayed Manitoba harvest

Aug 21, 2025 | 9:41 AM

Farmers are slowly making progress with the 2025 crop.

Manitoba Agriculture reported combining is now four percent complete across the province.

Cereal Crop Specialist Ann Kirk said rain over the past week helped replenish topsoil moisture but did delay harvest. She said the biggest push was in the central, eastern and Interlake areas.

“In those regions we are seeing the winter cereal harvest is nearing completion. In the southwest and northwest, we’re sitting at about 25 to 30 per cent harvest completion in those regions,” Kirk said.

Roughly 19 per cent of the field pea harvest is complete and across the province and about 52 per cent of winter cereals are in the bin. For spring wheat, 10 per cent is off in the central and Interlake regions.The eastern, southwest and northwest range from one to five per cent. Some barley and oats have been harvested in the central, eastern and Interlake.

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Kirk said that there are some early yield estimates coming in for winter cereals and other crops. For winter cereals there’s a range depending on soil conditions, how much rainfall areas received as well as the crop type.

“For winter wheat we’re seeing about 40 to 60 bushels per acre in drier areas and 60 to 90 in areas that received more moisture,” she said. “For fall rye, it does depend a lot on if people are growing open pollinated varieties or if they’re growing hybrid varieties. For fall rye we are seeing 60 to 85 bushels per acre for open pollinated varieties and anywhere from about 80 to 130 bushels per acre for hybrid varieties.”

Spring wheat early yield estimates range from 45 to 75 bushels per acre, depending a lot on moisture conditions.

A small amount of canola has been harvested but preliminary yields range from 45 to 55 and peas about 60 bushels per acre.

Kirk added if conditions stay dry there will be a big push as soon as field conditions allow.

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