Around 10 per cent of Weyburn and area crops are in the bin, says extension agrologist Elaine Moats, compared to 19 per cent province-wide.

While those numbers may appear to show Weyburn is lagging in progress, the provincial average is boosted by regions like the southwest, where around 73 per cent of the crop has been combined.

Crops with the furthest progress in the Weyburn region are lentils and peas, which farmers are halfway finished combining, says Moats.

"The lentil and pea harvest is well head of all the other crops. For many people, they either haven't started or have just started on wheat," she said, adding progress on canola and mustard is further along than that of wheat.

Harvest progress is following seeding patterns, the agrologist points out.

In the southern part of the region towards the U.S. border, there is a lot of mature wheat that is still standing, waiting to be straight cut. In the Yellow Grass and Cedoux areas, much of the crop is already combined because so many lentils were grown there. West of Pangman, much of the crop is still quite green because of rain delays during spring seeding.

Weather has also affected harvest progress, and Sunday night's rainfall stalled operations for a couple of days.

However, the Weyburn area received warm weather for the most part last week, reflected in the progress of swathing operations, which are almost done.

Moats says some farmers have been frustrated by unusually tall stands of canola and mustard that have been hard to feed through swathers and combines. Some crops have been pushed down by heavy rains earlier in the season, which have caused further harvest problems.

"That's been the biggest frustration to work around in the last while," she said.