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Barley field west of Grande Prairie. Photo by Erika Rolling.
By Erika Rolling
Crop Report

Warm weather brings harvest 2025 back up to speed

Sep 2, 2025 | 11:25 AM

Cool temperatures and rainfall started the harvest season slower, but with the heatwave; producers are getting widespread operations going again.

The Alberta Crop Report dated August 26, says it is the busiest time of year in the fields, with harvest of fall-seeded crops nearly complete across the province, half of the spring-seeded pulses off, harvest of spring-seeded cereals beginning on earlier seeded fields and canola is starting to get swathed.

Provincial harvest progress was at 11 per cent complete at the time the report was compiled, which is 4 per cent behind the five-year average. The report did say that with weather taking a turn to warmer, drier days; taking crops off would progress rapidly.

In the Peace, the estimates of crop harvest are as follows:

  • Spring wheat – 7.7 per cent
  • Barley – 14.1 per cent
  • Oats – 6.8 per cent
  • Canola – 1.5 per cent
  • Dry peas – 28.1 per cent

Provincially, all crop conditions are rated 65 per cent good to excellent, in comparison to the 5-year average of 50 per cent and ten-year average of 54 per cent. The Peace Region sits at the worst good to excellent ratio at 27 per cent.

Dryland yield estimates for the Peace are (bushels/acre):

  • Spring wheat – 40.3
  • Barley – 48.8
  • Oats – 52.8
  • Canola – 30.4
  • Dry peas – 39.6

These estimates are lower than the provincial averages for 2025, and well below the five and ten-year averages. The South and Central regions are well over the five and ten-year averages.

Pasture conditions are 50.6 per cent fair in the Peace Region, with 21.8 per cent poor, 27.1 per cent good and only 0.5 per cent excellent.

Pest pressure is also over the threshold in the Peace with grasshoppers at 4 per cent, having +15 per square meter, lygus bugs at 1 per cent with +15 in 10 sweeps, and army cutworms at 1 per cent, greater than 2 per square foot per seed row.

The next crop report is due out on Friday, September 5.

by Erika Rolling