The Northwest region is slightly behind the provincial average when it comes to harvest. 

The latest crop report shows harvest is about 13 percent complete across Manitoba, with the Northwest region reporting about 5 percent being finished. 

Harvest of spring cereals has begun in some parts of the region and appears to be more advanced in the Dauphin area, while fall rye and winter wheat harvest is approximately 95 percent wrapped up across the region. 

Most canola is reported as podding and maturing across the area.

Temperatures reached 30 degrees or warmer at times throughout the week across the entire region, with Swan River recording the warmest temperature at 32.0 degrees.

At the opposite end, Ruhthenia recorded the coldest low over the past seven days, getting down one evening to a chilly 3.9 degrees. 

Scattered showers, strong winds, and smoke did impact harvest operations at times over the past week, but precipitation levels varied across the region from as high as 18.4 mm in Birch River, to as low as 1.4 mm in Amaranth.

Dauphin received 3.4 mm of rain over the past week.