Harvest is winding down across the prairies, with Canadian harvest at about 90 per cent complete.

Neil Townsend, director of market research at G3 Canada, says Manitoba's harvest operations are close to 100 per cent done, with some oats, flax, canola, and long season crops still going.

He says the other prairie provinces are little farther behind, with unfinished spring wheat holding Saskatchewan at 90 per cent, while Alberta harvest is at 85 per cent complete.

"In terms of quality, I mean the first of half of the harvest was very good, we had very good quality out of that. The last kind of bit that's been coming off has been, generally speaking, down further on the quality scale. Today it looks like we're going to have about 59 to 60 per cent number ones and numbers twos for CWRS, and for the durum it looks like we'll have about 51 per cent grading out as number one or number two," Townsend says.

Townsend says crops this year have also shown an increase in protein.