Some Livestock producers in the province are seeing very low hay yields and will be in short supply this year, according to this week’s crop report from Saskatchewan Agriculture.
The hay quality is 47 percent good, 32 per cent fair and 17 per cent poor.
A majority of fall cereals, spring cereals, oilseeds and pulse crops are at normal stages of development this growing season.
Topsoil moisture is rated as three per cent surplus, 84 per cent adequate, 12 per cent short and one per cent very short.
Rainfall on cropland ranged from none to 83 mm reported in the Sonningdale area.
Most crop damage has been because of localized flooding, strong winds, hail and insects like aphids and grasshoppers.
There are also some reports of diseases in pulse crops.