CROP REPORT FOR THE PERIOD AUGUST 30 TO SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Saskatchewan producers have 32 per cent of the 2011 crop combined, right on track with the five-year (2006-2010) provincial average, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's Weekly Crop Report.

Thirty-four per cent of the crop is swathed or ready to straight-cut, compared to the five-year average of 31 per cent. Rain in some areas delayed harvest work for a few days, but most producers were able to get back into the fields at the beginning of the week.

Harvest progress varies across the province. The southwest has 46 per cent combined; the southeast 43 per cent; the west-central region 29 per cent; the east-central region 27 per cent; the northeast 19 per cent and the northwest 12 per cent. Seventy-six per cent of the lentils; 81 per cent of the field peas; 91 per cent of the winter wheat; 22 per cent of the durum; 15 per cent of the spring wheat and 28 per cent of the canola have been combined.

Across the province, topsoil moisture on cropland is rated as five per cent surplus, 78 per cent adequate, 16 per cent short and one per cent very short. Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture is rated as two per cent surplus, 75 per cent adequate, 21 per cent short and two per cent very short.

Farmers are busy harvesting, seeding winter cereals, hauling bales and controlling weeds on unseeded acres.

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For more information, contact:

Grant McLean
Agriculture
Moose Jaw
Phone: 306-694-3592