Manitoba Agriculture reports the number of acres of fall seeded cereal crops planted in the province this year has been about on par with that of last year.
Manitoba Agriculture released its weekly crop report Monday.
Pam de Rocquigny, a Provincial Cereal Crop Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says planting of the winter wheat and fall rye, the main winter cereal crops grown in Manitoba, started in that first week of September, right when we like to see acres start going in and, for the most part, producers that had planned on planting winter wheat or fall rye were able to get those acres in.
We’re probably going to see acres stable, at the same as last year in terms of both winter wheat and fall rye since both those crop types were seeded into generally good soil conditions, being good soil moisture and warm soil temperatures. What we’re hearing is they’re emerging quite nicely right now. There’s been good germination and good stand establishment reported so far.
Some areas that did receive some heavier amounts of precipitation, they are reporting that they are seeing some impacts to stand establishment just due to really wet field conditions so we’ll see how that impacts the winter wheat crop and fall rye crop as we go into the winter. Typically we like to see winter wheat at that three leaf to a tiller stage. That’s kind of the best stage that we like to see the winter wheat going into our winters and I think we’ll probably see that this year so that’s good news.
Most crops are seeded into good stubble as well because we do need that snow catch and snow cover to protect the crowns from those cold temperatures that we often do get in the province over the winter. I think we’re setting up quite nicely and producers are doing all they can to get the crop as winter hardy as possible.
~ Pam de Rocquigny, Manitoba Agriculture
De Rocquigny says we’ve seen some good germination so far and some good stand establishment.
She says it’s always great for our winter crops to establish well so they can survive our cold Manitoba winters.
