Southwest Leading Sask Crop Report in Harvest Progression

Sep 17, 2021

Nearly three-quarters of the harvest in Saskatchewan is complete according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

Matt Struthers, a Crops Extension Specialist with the Ministry of Agriculture shared an update.

"This past week they've been out there combining non-stop with very few rain delays," he said. "We've got 74 per cent of the crop now combined, of course that's up from 56 per cent last week and ahead of our five-year average of 50 per cent."

The southwest region is leading the way with 85 per cent in the bin. The southeast is at 81 per cent, west-central at 79 per cent, northeast at 69 per cent, east-central at 63 per cent, and northwest at 57 per cent.

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

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