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By rdnewsNOW staff

Harvest season

Central Alberta crop quality above provincial five-year average so far

Sep 16, 2019 | 4:20 PM

Although rain showers halted harvest operations in most areas of central Alberta over the weekend, harvest is now resuming.

Since last week, officials with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry say producers were able to combine an additional five per cent of their major crops.

Haying operations and the baling of crops (particularly for damaged cereals by hail) are said to be now underway.

Overall, about 83 per cent of all crops are still standing (compared to the five-year average of 63 per cent), with eight per cent swathed and nine per cent in the bin.

Officials say quality for harvested crops so far in the region is above the provincial five-year averages, with the exception for barley number one, which is below.

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For dry peas, about 39 per cent is graded as number one, 41 per cent as number two, 19 per cent as number three and about one per cent as feed.

Second cut hay is reported as 32 per cent complete for dryland, with average yield estimated at 1.8 tons per acre and quality rated as 49 per cent fair and 51 per cent good.

Pasture growth conditions are rated 23 per cent poor, 41 per cent fair and 36 per cent good.

(With files from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry)