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By Sheldon Spackman

Planted And Watered

Seeding complete on major crop acres in Alberta

Jun 16, 2021 | 11:46 AM

Warm weather the previous week followed by weekend precipitation, resulted in up to 40 mm of rain being reported across areas of central Alberta last week.

However, hail was reported in the Acadia, and Special Areas 2 and 3, according to the latest weekly crop report from Alberta Agriculture and forestry, in partnership with Agriculture Financial Services Corporation.

Elsewhere, barley and oats are nearing the end of the seedling stage of the Zadocs growth scale, with six or seven leaves unfolded, while spring wheat has just entered the tillering stage.

Surface moisture (sub-surface moisture in brackets) rating are 6 (10) per cent poor, 14 (16) per cent fair, 50 (48) per cent good, 28 (26) per cent excellent, and 2 (0) per cent rated as excessive.

Tame hay conditions (pasture shown in brackets) are rated 6 (8) per cent poor, 14 (18) per cent fair, 64 (64) per cent good, and 16 (10) per cent excellent.

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Across the province, spring conditions have been favourable for plant emergence with 91 per cent of all major crop acres in Alberta now up and out of the ground. This is an increase of 17 per cent over last week, and is also ahead of the five-year average of 82 per cent and 10-year average of 86 per cent emerged for this week in history.

Spring wheat is 94 per cent emerged, six points ahead of the five-year average, while barley is 87 per cent emerged compared to the five-year average of 80 per cent and oats are 81 per cent compared to 66 on the five-year average.

Canola respondents consider 87 per cent of acres emerged compared to the five-year average of 77, followed by peas at 98 per cent emerged while the five-year average is 91 per cent.

Seeding progress is now considered at 100 per cent complete on the major crop acres in the province, with very few acres of barley or oats left to plant for feed in Central, North East and North West regions.