This year’s crop is on its way to the bin and market, with some farmers getting into the field the first week of August. Â
Fall rye has been combined in some locations and other crops, such as barley and peas, are coming off as well. Â
Saskatchewan has over 44,000 farms with over 55,000 operators who will harvest seven million acres of cropland in the coming weeks and months.Â
Most of the crops in this area of the province are looking very good, having good early soil moisture at seeding and timely rains in most areas. Also, there has been a low number of damaging storms and few reports of hail damaging causing damage to crops.Â
Early reports on crops that are in the bin have yields of close to sixty bushels to the acre on field peas, and barley yields of over a hundred bushels to the acre.Â
This year there is good expectations of quality throughout the different crops, mainly canola, peas, lentils, wheat, barley and flax making up the highest number of acres, with durum wheat, corn, soybeans and sunflowers in some areas as well. Â
Early reports have higher than average yields on the crops that have been combined, once everything is combined and in the bin is when it all can be assessed as to the kind of year each operator has had.Â