Manitoba reporting low levels of fusarium as spring cereal crops start to come in

Manitoba Agriculture released its latest weekly crop report on Tuesday, offering a snapshot of harvest progress and crop conditions across the province. Cereal crop specialist Anne Kirk, who is compiling the reports this month, says harvest operations are moving forward despite recent weather challenges.

"Things are going well so far," said Kirk. "We did have precipitation occurring across the province over this past week, so a range of accumulations. Some areas in each region got very little, but others received quite a bit - Portage la Prairie saw about 111 millimeters, which did cause a pause in harvest operations.

Despite the rain, we did see an increase in harvest completion. Provincially, farmers now have ten per cent of the crop in the bin, up from four per cent the previous week.