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Manitoba Crop Report

  •  Favourable weather continued to advanced harvest.  See weekly Crop Weather Report.  
     
  •  Low humidity and limited rain causing premature ripening, limited pasture regrowth and very dry seed
     
  •  Spring cereal, canola, dry bean and early soybean varieties harvested. Potato top-killing has occurred.
     
  •  Spring cereal yields have been better than expected with high protein and good quality
     
  • Dugout levels very low in most of the province, livestock being moved to water or water being brought in
     
  • Baling of pastures, hayland, ditches, sloughs, greenfeed and harvested cereal straw continues. 
Source : Manitoba Agriculture

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