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Crop Condition Assessment Program, June 2016

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Released: 2016-06-01

As of May 29, crop development was much lower than normal across Atlantic Canada, Quebec and most of Ontario, according to the satellite-based Crop Condition Assessment Program (CCAP). Crop development was lower than normal in Manitoba and a large proportion of Saskatchewan, while it was normal or above normal in the remaining agricultural areas.

Seeding progressed rapidly across the Prairies as a result of dry, warm weather, according to provincial crop reports. Some early planted crops were reseeded because of a widespread frost in western Saskatchewan and southern Alberta. Timely rains in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan helped reduce soil water deficits. Sunny, dry conditions helped advance planting in Ontario, despite slightly below normal temperatures. Conditions were less favourable in Quebec as cool spring temperatures delayed planting, and lack of rain delayed the emergence of crops.

The weekly satellite images at the start of the 2016 growing season have been processed and are now available on the CCAP website.

In addition, historical mean values (1987 to 2015) are available in CANSIM. These values are derived from the one-kilometre resolution satellite picture elements within each census agriculture region or census consolidated subdivision of Canada that contains pasture and/or cropping. The inter-annual weekly reference period is from mid-April to mid-October.

The CCAP is a free web mapping application that provides timely, objective cropland and pasture monitoring information on a weekly basis for Canada's entire agricultural region, as well as the northern part of the United States.

The application combines state-of-the-art satellite remote sensing with geographic information systems and dynamic web mapping technologies. It is the longest running program of its kind in Canadian history.

Satellite imagery is received every Monday from early April until mid-October. Weekly updates are made to the web application within minutes of receiving the satellite data for near real-time use by the entire agriculture community.

Current conditions are compared with a 29-year normal, allowing easy mapping of areas under stress, such as drought, flooding or frost events. The web application includes other features such as thematic maps and data in graph and tabular format for four types of different geography layers, from the census agriculture region to the township level. The entire historical database from 1987 onward is included in the application.

  Note to readers

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, through the Growing Forward 2 program, has partnered with Statistics Canada to provide the Crop Condition Assessment Program application free of charge. The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, part of Natural Resources Canada, has also contributed by providing software for processing the input satellite data.

Data from the Crop Condition Assessment Program will be made available in CANSIM table 001-0100 over the summer.

Products

The publication Crop Condition Assessment Program, 2016 (Catalogue number22-205-X), is available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.

Click on the link to access the web application.

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