The end-of-June crop report was easily the most uplifting one in a year, both on the crop development front and on soil moisture levels.
“This week, 75 per cent of all crops in the province are rated in good or excellent condition, only marginally behind both the five-year and 10-year averages,” says the June 27 report.
And although growth and development staging are behind long-term averages, it is only “modestly” so and “early June rains seem to have given crops the opportunity to advance and catch up closer to the long-term average.”
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It’s similarly positive on soil moisture.
A year ago, 62 per cent of the province’s farmland was rated as poor or fair for soil moisture. That plunged to 19 per cent by the end of June. And 76 per cent was rated as good or excellent, double what it was a year ago.
