Alberta’s harvest progress makes big leap as summer ends

Sep 23, 2023 | 3:13 PM

The latest Alberta Crop Report for Sept. 19, 2023 notes favourable weather conditions allowed harvest to progress significantly over the last week in all regions of the province.

Major crop harvest progress sits at 65 per cent complete, up 21 percentage points from the previous week.

“The Central, North East, North West, and Peace regions report that pulse harvests are near completion with the majority of harvest efforts focused on the spring cereal crops. While canola crops in these regions are being harvested where the crop is ready, significant portions of the canola crop are reported as still drying in swaths,” reports the AFSC and Government of Alberta.

“Increasing yield expectations have improved the five-year yield indexes in all regions of the province, resulting in the expectation that provincial major crop yields will be 91 per cent of the five-year average. Regionally, fiveyear yield indexes are reported to have increased by one per cent in the South to 69 per cent, increased by three per cent in Central to 82 per cent, increased by six per cent in the North East to 102 per cent, increased by one per cent in the North West to 113 per cent and increased by six per cent in the Peace to 96 per cent.”

The report goes on to note that as far as the Central region is concerned, good to excellent soil conditions in the area decreased to 18 per cent.

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“The percentage of the province reported as having good-to-excellent sub-surface moisture was reported as 33 per cent this week, a decrease of two per cent. Regionally, improvements in the South and North West regions only mitigated the reductions in the Central, North East, and Peace regions. Detailed changes are listed in the regional assessments below,” the report states.

“Provincial pasture growth rated in good-to-excellent condition is at 19 per cent, which is a decrease of two per cent since the last report. Regionally, the per cent of pasture rated good-to-excellent is at six per cent in the South, 16 per cent in Central, 31 per cent in the North East, 38 per cent in the North West and 51 per cent in the Peace.”

Region Two: Central (Rimbey, Airdrie, Coronation, Oyen)

Harvest progressed steadily despite reports of minor delays due to scattered showers and smoke.
Canola crop in the swath is reported as 34 per cent.
Eastern areas of the region are reporting that harvest is nearing completion.
Cooling nighttime temperatures have raised concerns of frost events occurring.
Sub-surface (below 6”) moisture is reported as good-to-excellent for 22 per cent of the region

This week’s report can be viewed in full at alberta.ca.

(with files from the AFSC and the Government of Alberta)

by rdnewsNOW staff

Alberta’s harvest progress makes big leap as summer ends

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