Producers continue to work on bringing in this year's hay crop. Locally, 60 per cent of the hay has been cut and farmers are expecting good yields.

For the most part, quality is rated as good to excellent, provided the rain doesn't cause damage. Hay is slow to dry due to high humidity, heavy swaths and showers.

As far as crop development, sunshine and warmer weather is helping that along. Crop staging varies from field to field, peas and mustard are podding, chickpeas are flowering, canola is flowering and podding, and cereals are heading out.

Farmers are busy scouting fields, controlling weeds, diseases and grasshoppers. Hail damage, leaf diseases and root rot are causing crop damage.

Lee Davis spoke with Cropping Management Specialist Grant McLean about Saskatchewan Agriculture's crop report for the week of July 13th-19th, 2010