Harvest is proceeding in most southern and central areas—even with reports of hail storms causing crop damage in parts of the southeast on Wednesday.

Saskatchewan Agriculture estimates 15 per cent of the provincial crop had been combined as of Monday. The southwest comes in at 29 per cent, with the southeast at 21 per cent combined and east-central at 17 per cent. One reason why that east-central number is so high is that a large area has been combined in the Hanley region due to dry conditions during the growing season. Rounding out the province, the west central and northeast sit at five per cent combined with the northwest only at one per cent.

This is the harvest breakdown by crop—fall rye (62 per cent), winter wheat (56 per cent), lentils (50 per cent), peas 44 (per cent), barley (17 per cent), durum (14 per cent), oats 11 (per cent), spring wheat is 4 per cent) and canola is two per cent in the bin. Speaking of canola, crop reporters indicate many regions are reporting more incidents of sclerotinia. Crop lodging is also being found in many areas.

The highest rainfall last week was 69 millimetres at Craven, Other notable amounts were 66 millimetres at Strasbourg, Arborfield 49 millimetres and Rosthern 48 millimetres last week.

Precipitation has improved topsoil moisture on cropland with a 35 per cent adequate rating, 42 per cent short and 24 per cent very short. Pasture conditions have been declining at 13 per cent very poor, 25 per cent poor, 36 per cent fair, 22 per cent good and only four per cent receiving an excellent rating.