This report may not be reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part without permission of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre.  After getting off to a slower start than normal, the western Canadian barley harvest eventually caught up to the normal pace. Periodic wet weather caused some disruption, and in some cases caused some […]

This report may not be reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part without permission of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre. After getting off to a slower start than normal, barley harvest has largely caught up to the long-term average in most of western Canada, although is still behind the pace of the last […]

This report may not be reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part without permission of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre. Much of western Canada received critical moisture over the past week and while not everywhere got the amounts they were hoping for (and in some pockets perhaps too much rain fell), the precipitation […]

This report may not be reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part without permission of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre. By early October, farmers in western Canada had essentially wrapped up the barley harvest, with only a few small pockets remaining in parts of northern Alberta and eastern Saskatchewan.  In most regions, the […]

This report may not be reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part without permission of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre. The barley harvest is just past the halfway point on the prairies, with the more southern areas getting into the later stages while the northern half of the growing region isn’t quite as […]

This report may not be reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part without permission of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre. Crop conditions remain variable across western Canada, but overall yield potential is still above average. In recent weeks parts of central and northern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan have seen minimal moisture, resulting in […]

The harvest in Western Canada continues to face extraordinarily challenging conditions as record breaking snow storms covered southern Alberta and parts of Saskatchewan earlier this week. The enormity of the storm and the accumulation of rain/snow across the prairies brought everything to a standstill, prolonging an already delayed harvest.  Temperatures last week were in the […]