Rain has been putting a damper on the harvest this year.

In many cases rain has made desiccating, swathing and now combining a challenge in many areas.

Dorian Sondrol farms  in the Gull Lake/Cabri area and so far has taken off some Peas and Barley.

The Peas were good quality and came in around 50 to 55 bushels an acre, while the barley ran about 80 to 89 bushels an acre.

He’s not sure if it will make malt but he’ll be sending a sample away later this week.   

He says he still has some lentils to bring in and like most producers this year is concerned about the quality with all the rain we had.

Despite all of the moisture, some combines have been on the move in Southwest Saskatchewan
 
Doug Logan farms in the  Gull Lake area and says rain has delayed some of their plans noting he just got started a few days ago.

When we caught up to him he was working on red lentils and notes with all the rain they’ve had to spray a couple of their fields twice for disease.  

On the bright side, Logan says he’s looking forward to getting into his barley and durum.

"I don't know if I have ever seen a crop like this before," he said.

"This might be a record for our farm, and we had a pretty big one two or three years ago."

In the Elrose area Warren Herman has had about 25 to 30 inches of rain this year, compared to the 10 to 12 inches they would normally get.

He says it’s been a challenge trying to get into the crop to swath and desiccate:

"Everything looked good up until the second week in July, then the rain came and wouldn't stop," he said.

"Especially the lentils, they were the hardest hit of all of our crops. They don't like getting wet feet and they definitely had that this year."

He notes they are still waiting for things to dry up so they can get the combines rolling out in the field.