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Crop Progress: Winter Wheat Condition Continues Decline

For the week ending Nov. 3, 2024, there were 5.7 days suitable for fieldwork, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Topsoil moisture supplies rated 41% very short, 38% short, 21% adequate and 0% surplus. Subsoil moisture supplies rated 41% very short, 39% short, 20% adequate and 0% surplus.

Field Crops Report:

Corn harvested was 90%, ahead of 82% last year and 78% for the five-year average.

Soybeans harvested was 98%, near 94% last year and 96% average.

Winter wheat condition rated 10% very poor, 25% poor, 28% fair, 32% good and 5% excellent. Winter wheat emerged was 83%, behind 96% last year and 94% average. 

Sorghum harvested was 81%, near 78% bot h last year and average.

Pasture and Range Report:

Pasture and range conditions rated 34% very poor, 26% poor, 26% fair, 13% good and 1% excellent.

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.