Peace Country farmers making progress with harvest

Sep 4, 2020 | 1:35 PM

Alberta Agriculture says harvest progress across the Peace is close to where it usually is this time of year.

Its newest report, dated September 1, says six per cent of the crop has been combined, just under the five-year average of 6.8.

That six per cent combined includes 16.9 per cent of the dry peas, 3.1 per cent of the spring wheat, 2 per cent of the barley and .2 per cent of the oats. The report says no canola has been combined yet.

Sixteen per cent has been swathed, ahead of the five-year average of 15 per cent.

Twenty-eight per cent of the canola, three per cent of the spring wheat, two per cent of the barley, and two per cent of the oats has been swathed.

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Seventy-three per cent of the pasture and 71 per cent of the hay is rated good or excellent, with two and seven per cent respectively considered poor.

Many farmers in the Peace had to finish harvesting last year’s crop before or during seeding in the spring.

Wet conditions meant a lot of the 2019 crop stayed in the field over winter.

by Curtis Galbraith

Peace Country farmers making progress with harvest

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