By Alice McFarlane

Manitoba’s farmers battle weather getting crop in the bin

Sep 4, 2025 | 12:45 PM

Isolated rainfall and storm events across Manitoba slowed combining in the province.

Manitoba Agriculture oilseed specialist Sonia Wilson said despite the moisture there were some advances in harvest over the past week.

“We did have generally warm and dry conditions across the province although there was some isolated rainfall as well as storm events ranging from zero to 60 millimetres generally around the Riding Mountain National Park and Red River Valley areas,” Wilson said. “The highest amount of rainfall was seen at Kane with about 60.3 millimetres.”

The majority of the winter wheat and fall rye has been combined with a few acres left in the Interlake region.

Wilson said spring wheat moved ahead with roughly 60 per cent taken off.

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“At this point for spring wheat the northwest, central and eastern areas sitting at around that 70 to 80 per cent and southwest at 40 per cent and Interlake at 50 per cent,” she said. “In terms of barley and oats, barley we have sitting at 65 per cent across the province and oats at 41 per cent.”

Most of the field peas are off across the province with the canola harvest just starting with about 10 per cent completed.

Wilson said with rain in the forecast for much of the province, harvest progress will be dependent on the weather.

She said producers will be focusing on barley and finishing up the spring wheat before turning their attention to canola and oats.

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alice.mcfarlane@pattisonmedia.com