Crops in the southeast range in development and condition, and many areas of the province are struggling under heat and moisture stress while parts of the southeast have been receiving rain with thunderstorms, with some pockets of very good looking crops.
Rainfall in the Weyburn area ranged from a trace in the RM of Weyburn to 2 mm in the RM of Brokenshell, and 18.5 mm in the RM of Wellington, and 34 mm in the RM of Tecumseh around Stoughton. A trace was received in the RM of Francis, and in the Radville area, rainfall amounts ranged from 2 to 22 mm.
“We’re quite dry, and I would say that we’re under drought conditions. Crops are starting to ripen very quickly, and I’ll be starting peas in a day or two,” said Dale Paslawski, who farms in the Cedoux area north of Weyburn.