Whether we like to admit it or not, harvest time is right around the corner.

"The wheat is turning and any of the rye and winter wheat I'm sure will be swathed or desiccated next week," said Melita-area farmer Rick Tilbury. "Crops in our area are coming along pretty well, depending on if you caught the showers or not, but all in all crops in this corner look pretty good."

Some producers in the area have had sufficient moisture levels while others are struggling with dryness, he said.

"Quite a bit of variability this year," he said. "We could use a nice rain right now before harvest really gets going, if we were to have an inch or maybe two inches of rain to finish off the later crops, the soybeans, the later canola, the sunflowers and the corn; two inches of rain would be very welcome right now."

Much like rain, insects and disease have stayed away for the most part this season, Tilbury added.

"I think disease levels are very low this year. I haven't really heard of any terrible problems with diease," he said, adding that flea beetles have been the primary pest.