For some fields drought stress is just one more crop stress for this year. Delayed planting, and emergence, weed pressure and armyworm feeding have also affected some fields. Armyworm feeding has come to a halt in most fields as armyworms pupate. On lighter, sandy soils, that have not received any rainfall, there are some plants are dying. Other fields, on heavier soils, and those that have received rainfall look good.
Fields are in full flower and are podding.
Fields have been swathed and there has been some interest in using canola as a source of straw for bedding in areas that have a short supply of cereal straw. Rainfall is needed. Many farmers are feeding hay to livestock that are on pasture. The clouds arrived on the 10th but very little fell. Temperatures cooled down after the cloud to daytime highs in the mid twenties.