Over the past week, warm and dry weather made for good harvest progress. So far, winter and spring wheat, barley, oats, and canola yields are average to above average.

However, the weekend weather of rain, wind, and hail, in some areas, halted harvest operations across the province. Harvest will continue once warmer weather brings drier field conditions, but the varying precipitation isn't all bad.

Manitoba Agriculture's Pam de Rocquigny says the rain was good for later maturing crops like corn and soybeans, as well as for regrowth in pastures.

Canola harvest is moving along, with yields floating around 30 to 50 bushels per acre. Canola crops in areas like the Red River Valley are about 40 per cent complete, and further east, about 10 per cent is harvested, but areas like the southwest aren't as far along.

"The early-seeded canola fields are being swathed, and they're reporting lower disease levels in both the early and later seeded canola, so that's nice to hear, but we are hearing there are some difficulties in swathing just because some of the crop has lodged, so that's something producers are dealing with at this point too," de Rocquigny says.

The full crop report is available on the Manitoba Agriculture website.