A tale of opposites when it comes to growing conditions from one side of the province to the other.
The provincial crop report indicated the heatwave is rapidly advancing crop development but its also causing heat stress and lowering yield potential, forcing some producers in the south to harvest crops for feed.
Daryl Fransoo with the Wheat Growers farms in the Glaslyn area in the northwest. He says unfortunately where he farms its currently a dry pocket as they received just two to three inches of rain at this point in the growing season.
“You go in any direction of us and I think the crop looks okay but…we won’t really know until the combines get in there because of the environmental conditions that the crop is facing in the northwest.” said Fransoo.
While Fransoo figures they’re about a month away from harvest, he has noticed pulse crops “50 miles away” could be harvested in the next two weeks.
Meanwhile in the Parkland Region of east-central Saskatchewan, Bill Prybylski with APAS says things in his area are looking good for the most part but admitted “there’s been possibly too much moisture in some cases.”
Some acres were lost due to excess moisture and some disease reported in pulse crops. Prybylski applied some fungicide to his crops and hopes it “salvages a pretty decent crop.”
Prybylski, who farms west of Yorkton, acknowledged regions throughout the province where there’s been a lack of rain.
“I would rate it as quite variable across the province.”