Crops are developing rapidly across the province with this week’s hot dry weather.
The latest provincial crop report says rainfall varied this past week from a trace to 50 millimeters or two inches around Indian Head and Neilburg.
Cropland topsoil moisture is rated two percent surplus, 71 percent adequate, 22 percent short and five percent very short.
Winter cereal crops are starting to ripen and earlier seeded crops have started to mature.
Some farmers are expected to be harvesting in the coming weeks.
The majority of crops are rated fair to good but spring cereals, canola field peas and soybeans are fair to excellent.
Crop damage this past week was caused by strong winds, lack of moisture, localized flooding, hail, wildlife, insects and crop diseases.
Haying is progressing with 26 percent cut and 49 percent baled or put into silage.
Hay yields are below normal this year for many farmers, mainly in areas that received less rainfall in early summer.
