Frequent rain keeping farmers out of fields
Harvest in northwestern Saskatchewan showed little progress in the past week.
The crop report for the week ending Aug. 15 indicates one per cent of the region’s peas have been harvested, with another 12 per cent ready to be straight cut. Two per cent of the canola has been swathed.
Producers worked to desiccate their crops as much as they could in between rain showers. But Daphne Cruise, crop management specialist with the Ministry of Agriculture, said rain was nearly a daily occurrence.
“You just think you can get going and then there’s a shower that rolls through that drops two or three-tenths (of an inch) or even higher,” she said. “You just can’t seem to get going. You’re just ready to go, and then another rain shower moves through stalling you even more.”