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Crop Progress: Winter Wheat Condition 52% Good, 12% Excellent

Crop Progress: Winter Wheat Condition 52% Good, 12% Excellent

For the week ending Nov. 28, 2021, there were 6.9 days suitable for fieldwork, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Topsoil moisture supplies rated 9% very short, 33% short, 58% adequate and 0% surplus. Subsoil moisture supplies rated 15% very short, 34% short, 50% adequate and 1% surplus.

Field Crops Report:

Winter wheat condition rated 2% very poor, 11% poor, 23% fair, 52% good and 12% excellent.

Pasture and Range Report:

Pasture and range conditions rated 16% very poor, 20% poor, 46% fair, 15% good and 3% excellent.

This is the last weekly Crop Progress and Condition report for the 2021 growing season. We would like to extend our appreciation to the dedicated county FSA and extension staff who supplied the necessary information for these reports. For December through March, we will issue monthly reports. The first monthly report (for week ending Jan. 2) will be issued Jan. 3, 2022. Weekly reports will begin April 4 for the 2022 season.

Source : unl.edu

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When was the last time you read the label on your honey?

We spent a day at Molenkamp Honey Farms with Michael Molenkamp, who has been keeping bees for 17 seasons and runs three to four thousand hives. In mid-September, he was finishing treatments and getting his bees ready for winter, and he walked us through how Alberta honey gets made.

Alberta has just 150 commercial beekeepers running 300,000 colonies, and together they produce 40% of Canada’s honey. Long summer days and golden canola fields give Alberta honey a light flavour that’s hard to match anywhere else.

Molenkamp calls Alberta beekeepers some of the most resilient farmers he knows. There’s plenty of Alberta honey to go around, but a lot on our shelves isn’t from here, so his ask is simple. Give the label a second look and choose honey made by Alberta beekeepers, or buy straight from a beekeeper near you.