Combines have hit the fields in Manitoba, with winter wheat and fall rye crops coming off over the past week, yielding 60 to 85 bushels per acre with low levels of fusarium. Some producers have also harvested a few early fields of spring wheat, barley, and field peas, but Manitoba Agriculture's Pam de Rocquigny says it's too early to tell what the yield will look like.

"Most [spring-seeded crops] are probably still in those grain-filling stages, and probably the later grain-filling stages, so soft to hard dough stages," she says. "I think the weather we've been having in terms of the warmer temperatures are definitely speeding up crop maturity."

Hail storms in isolated areas of the province in the southwest and central regions, such as the Souris and Letellier areas, also damaged crops quite a bit over the weekend.

"They're saying the hail damaged resulted in defoliation of some soybeans and actually pod-loss in soybeans as well, and shattering in canola, and of course, lodging in some of our crops like sunflowers and cereals," de Rocquigny says.

When hail or wind storms happen earlier in the year, crops have a better chance of recovering, but de Rocquigny says it may be too late in the season for that. She says at this time of year, yield has already been set, so severe weather often impacts yield by knocking off plant heads or breaking stems.

The full crop report for each region is on the Manitoba Agriculture website.