Farmland outside Fairview on October 13, 2025. Photo courtesy Erika Rolling.

By Erika Rolling

Agriculture

Harvest nearing completion in Peace Region

Oct 14, 2025 | 1:27 PM

With 98 per cent of the crop off in the Peace, harvest is well ahead of schedule. The five-year average is 88.3 per cent, and the 10-year average is 72.7 per cent.

According to the latest Alberta Crop Report dated October 7, provincial harvest advanced 18 per cent over a two-week period to 96 per cent complete.

Dry weather has helped producers make steady progress across Alberta, with only the occasional shower or frost causing minor delays.

Dry peas are fully harvested, with spring wheat, oats, and barley virtually complete. Canola is 92 per cent off the field around Alberta.

Fall seeded crop progress is closely tied to soil moisture conditions. Regionally, the Peace has no fall-seed crops reported. The surface soil moisture rating for good to excellent is at 36 per cent, a gain of nine per cent from the week prior. The sub-surface soil moisture rating for good to excellent is 34 per cent in the Peace, six per cent better than the week before.

The final estimate of dryland yields is above the five-year averages in Alberta, despite the Peace having the poorest yields in the province. The report says yields are close to average.

The estimates (bushels/acre) for the Peace Region are:

• Spring wheat – 42
• Barley – 48.8
• Oats – 52.5
• Canola – 33.5
• Dry Peas – 34.1

Pasture conditions sit at 27 per cent good to excellent in the Peace; unchanged from the previous report. The rest of the province, except for the South, does not have great pasture conditions, and as a result, many producers have brought cattle home for winter feeding.

The next report is due October 17.