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Excerpt from Foreign Crops and Markets, Vol. 47: August 2, 1943
The reduced wheat acreage, as reported, was the smallest area sown in the Prairie Provinces since 1918, and in general it conforms to the acreage goals set in December and to farmers' intentions to plant as of April 30 Average yields on the acreage reported would indicate an outturn in the three Prairie Provinces of around 270 million bushels, compared with last year's record cr0p of 565 million bushels. Present prospects, however are below average due to drought conditions over large areas of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Prospects for the Wheat crop in east ern Canada are also reported as less favorable than usual as the result of damage from rust and winter - kill, and large shipments from the west under the Freight Assistance Policy are expected.
The acreage sown to oats and barley in the Prairie Provinces is about million acres larger than the 1942 acreage of these grains. The con dition of the feed cr0ps in Canada on June 80 was less favorable than that of wheat and was below average. Oats was then reported as 88 percent of average and barley at 89 percent, compared with 100 percent for each on that date of 1942. Weather conditions during July have continued unfavor able ih parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta, and further crop deterioration has been reported. The condition of feed grains in the eastern Provinces is'also below average, particularly in Ontario and Quebec where large crops of feed grains, especially oats, are grown.
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