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Alberta Crop Report: July 26
Major crops rated good to excellent decreased significantly from 62 per cent in central Alberta last week to 32 per cent now.
Cereals are nearing the end of flowering due to heat stress. There is also staging variability depending on when fields were seeded, ranging from booting to dough development.
Some areas of the Central Region experienced small moisture pockets and damaging hail that left sub-surface soil moisture rated as 53 per cent poor, 30 per cent fair, 15 per cent good, 2 per cent excellent and 0 per cent excessive.
Some producers are planning to silage more of their crops due to recent low expectations for a second cut and to ensure feed availability. Pasture is currently rated 33 per cent poor, 23 per cent fair, 45 per cent good and 0 per cent excellent.