Sunny and warm all week with daytime temperatures in the upper 20's and nighttime temperatures in the upper teens. Majority of fields now at 6-8 leaf. Some April plantings are looking uneven, patchy, with poor colour. All this should even out in a couple of weeks. Disease pressure continues to remain low in the majority of fields and wheat should escape fusarium infection.
Hay harvest is mostly complete.
Lots of variation in stands with some beans reaching fourth trifoliate and other beans at unifoliate, in some cases all in the same field. Some drilled beans are just starting to close in the rows. Majority in the 2-3 trifoliate stage. The hot weather conditions mean it is time to begin checking edible bean fields for potato leaf hoppers which can move in from hay fields as harvest wraps up there. Rapid growth of corn and soybeans has put pressure on completing post-emergent spraying as both crop and weeds are reaching the upper limit for spraying in some fields.