Farmers in central Manitoba continue to assess crop damage following storms this past weekend. According to the weekly Crop Report from Manitoba Agriculture small sized hail was reported in the Morden area, while Somerset, Notre Dame and Carman areas saw light to moderate hail.

Leonard Wiebe farms north-east of Carman. He says leaves on his corn crop are damaged but adds it's hard to say to what extent. "It's not like it was a complete disaster (and) everything got hailed out." Wiebe suspects some strong winds also contributed to crop damage.

The Crop Report also outlined that 15 mm to 35 mm of rain fell in central Manitoba this past week, however highest rainfall amounts fell in the Somerset area of about 80 mm and St. Claude to Treherne at 75 MM to 100 mm. Some fields handled the rainfall well, while standing water is a concern in others. Stand-thinning and yellowing of crop due to excess moisture is also evident in some crops.

"We're definitely not short of moisture," said Wiebe, adding on his farm he's got one bean field that has water sitting on it while the rest of his crops are hanging in there.

"On the cereals, they're looking okay. Corn is yellowing up, there's a little bit of puddling I can see...but with a few days of decent weather it'll hopefully recover again."

He adds however, field conditions vary throughout the area with differences being reported as close as four miles apart.

"We've got everything. We've got crops that look decent and there's crops around there that don't look great...We've got a half section of wheat and a half section of oats that I would say look a good average but then you go four/five miles north of our home farm and yeah, guys aren't going to spray their canola because it's mostly drowned out."

As for impacts to fungicide application, Wiebe has made the decision to go with aerial spraying.