Saskatchewan has been no stranger to heat this summer and, for farmers across the province, the warm weather couldn’t have come at a better time.
According to this week’s crop report, hot and dry weather has allowed for “tremendous harvest progress,” particularly in the southwest and west-central regions of the province.
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While some areas in the east received heavy rainfall and slowed down producers, as a whole, harvest in the province sits at 16 per cent, up five per cent from last week.
The harvest is currently right on par with the five-year average, while an additional 12 per cent of crops are now swathed or ready to straight-cut.
“Harvest progress is most advanced in the southwest region, where farmers have 45 per cent of their crop now in the bin, followed by producers in the west-central who have 19 per cent of their crop harvested,” a press release read.
Farmers in the southeast have six per cent of crops off their fields, the east-central has completed four per cent and both the northern regions have one per cent of their crop harvested.
For many producers in the wetter areas of the province including the eastern and northern regions, harvest will not begin for another week or more as their crops have not matured yet.
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