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| Norm Cobb, customer service representative at Parrish & Heimbecker Ltd, works in his office on High Street on Friday. Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy |
If the weather holds, area crops should be in great shape.
“It’s been kind of a perfect summer for most growers as far as obtaining a high yield,” said Brent Flaten, integrated pest management specialist at the Moose Jaw office of the provincial ministry of agriculture. “Now we just want to have this weather hold so we can bring that harvest in.”
He said provincially 30 per cent of the crop is combined and 36 per cent is swathed or ready to straight-cut. This is slightly above the five-year average from 2008 to 2012, which is 28 per cent combined and 31 per cent swathed or ready to straight-cut.
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