The southeast area of the province, including the Weyburn district, is the furthest advanced with harvest in Saskatchewan, with 95 per cent of this year's crop in the bin.

Of the five per cent still to come in, there is some barley, wheat and oats still out, along with a large percentage of the flax crops seeded in this area, along with some canola and the sunflowers crop, which will come off last, said extension agrologist Elaine Moats.

Most chickpea crops have been combined, as this year provided ideal growing conditions for this crop for the first time in a number of years.

"They didn't have the same disease pressure this year as other years as it was hot and dry. They matured and dried down properly with the heat," said Moats.

For canola, on the other hand, the heat has led to a problem of high counts of green seed in this year's crop, again due to the hot weather. The heat helped the crops to dry down before the seeds could properly mature, and there were no rains to wash out the chlorophyll, said the agrologist.

Provincially, harvest is about 89 per cent complete. This is far ahead of the five-year average for harvest, in which 61 per cent of harvest is usually completed by the mid-point in September. Last year, only 29 per cent of the crop was off the fields at this time.

Last week was hot and dry until the weekend, when some scattered showers and cooler temperatures moved in to the area. Moats said rainfall amounts ranged from a trace up to half an inch or better.

In those areas that received heavier amounts of rain, it will help with fall rye and winter wheat, but otherwise there was little impact.

Asked if many producers will still think about seeding fall rye and winter wheat with conditions so dry, Moats said this seeding is normally done in dry conditions, and the seeds are planted shallow so it doesn't take much moisture to make germination possible in the spring.

While there aren't large acres planted to fall rye or winter wheat in the Weyburn area, there are more as you go east and northeast from Weyburn towards the black soil zone, she added.

With cattle producers facing the prospect of having more cattle on hand to feed than they usually do, Moats said some producers will be growing fall rye to provide for early spring grazing.

Meanwhile, with most crops in the bin, producers are watching the temperatures and moisture levels in the bins as most crops went in at high temperatures.