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Crop yields in the RM of Montrose No. 315

In 2025, canola in the RM of Montrose No. 315 averaged 54 bu/ac, 54% above the RM's own 10-year average of 35. Below: every crop the RM reports, year by year, as the Government of Saskatchewan publishes them.

Every crop, the last harvest

Crop	2025	10-year average	Best year	Worst year
Canola	54 bu/ac	35	54 2025	10.8 1989
Spring wheat	62.9 bu/ac, as published	39.4	54.9 2013	5 1948
Durum	75 bu/ac	—	75 2025	15.8 2001
Barley	75.5 bu/ac	45.6	75.5 2025	7 1947
Oats	not reported	45.8	89.7 2004	10 1941
Field peas	50.5 bu/ac	32.4	54.7 2013	8.5 2001
Lentils	1,974 lb/ac	1,242	2,415 2013	553 1993
Flax	30.4 bu/ac	—	32.8 2014	3 1946
Fall rye	not reported	34.1	47.1 2013	5 1945
Mustard	not reported	—	1,475 2011	275 2002

Bushels an acre (bu/ac), or pounds an acre (lb/ac) for lentils, mustard, canary seed and chickpeas, as published. The 10-year average is of the RM’s last ten reported years.

Canola

2025: 54 bu/ac, 54% above the 10-year average of 35. In the last 20 reported years, 6 came in more than a fifth under the RM’s average for those years.

RM of Montrose No. 315 middle of all Saskatchewan RMs that year

Year	Yield, bu/ac	All RMs, middle
2025	54	45.3
2024	32.7	34.1
2023	21.8	35.5
2022	19.9	38.6
2021	15.2	22.8
2020	37.1	39.2
2019	45.7	42.1
2018	37	37.5
2017	40.1	34.6
2016	46.1	42.1

Left out of the averages, best and worst, as out of line with the RM’s other years: 1988. Shown as published.

Spring wheat

2025: 62.9 bu/ac (as published; it looks out of line with this RM’s other years). In the last 19 reported years, 5 came in more than a fifth under the RM’s average for those years.

RM of Montrose No. 315 middle of all Saskatchewan RMs that year

Year	Yield, bu/ac	All RMs, middle
2025	62.9 as published	57
2024	48.1	50.3
2023	23.4	45.8
2022	28	49.5
2021	18.8	30.8
2020	48.3	50.5
2019	49.6	50.1
2018	40	46.1
2017	48.4	45.3
2016	50	45.1

Left out of the averages, best and worst, as out of line with the RM’s other years: 1988, 2025. Shown as published.

Durum

2025: 75 bu/ac.

RM of Montrose No. 315 middle of all Saskatchewan RMs that year

Year	Yield, bu/ac	All RMs, middle
2025	75	52
2024	55.7	41.1
2020	35.2	47.9
2016	42.9	47.3
2015	31.9	34.8
2014	45.7	37.7
2013	67.7	47.1
2011	72.4	37.3
2010	72.3	34
2001	15.8	21.8

Left out of the averages, best and worst, as out of line with the RM’s other years: 1988. Shown as published.

Barley

2025: 75.5 bu/ac, 66% above the 10-year average of 45.6. In the last 20 reported years, 6 came in more than a fifth under the RM’s average for those years.

RM of Montrose No. 315 middle of all Saskatchewan RMs that year

Year	Yield, bu/ac	All RMs, middle
2025	75.5	78.9
2024	42	67.5
2023	13.2	59.9
2022	19.2	67.5
2021	13.3	33.1
2020	59.2	70.4
2019	69.2	69.4
2018	51	64.5
2017	43.8	61.6
2016	69.3	67.7

Left out of the averages, best and worst, as out of line with the RM’s other years: 1941, 1948, 1961. Shown as published.

Oats

2023: 19.1 bu/ac, 58% below the 10-year average of 45.8. In the last 14 reported years, 3 came in more than a fifth under the RM’s average for those years.

RM of Montrose No. 315 middle of all Saskatchewan RMs that year

Year	Yield, bu/ac	All RMs, middle
2023	19.1	75.9
2022	27.2	91.4
2021	6.7 as published	46.2
2020	68.6	90.3
2019	64.1	89.5
2016	99.9 as published	81.6
2015	47.5	70.3
2014	48.6	73.7
2013	56.8	82.4
2011	58.6	63.8

Left out of the averages, best and worst, as out of line with the RM’s other years: 1947, 1948, 1961, 2016, 2021. Shown as published.

Field peas

2025: 50.5 bu/ac, 56% above the 10-year average of 32.4. In the last 20 reported years, 6 came in more than a fifth under the RM’s average for those years.

RM of Montrose No. 315 middle of all Saskatchewan RMs that year

Year	Yield, bu/ac	All RMs, middle
2025	50.5	46.3
2024	35.4	36.7
2023	19	33.5
2022	24	36.3
2021	14.6	22.4
2020	38.6	40.2
2019	39.5	39.6
2018	24	37.7
2017	35.3	36.8
2016	42.8	40.3

Lentils

2025: 1,974 lb/ac, 59% above the 10-year average of 1,242. In the last 19 reported years, 5 came in more than a fifth under the RM’s average for those years.

RM of Montrose No. 315 middle of all Saskatchewan RMs that year

Year	Yield, lb/ac	All RMs, middle
2025	1,974	1,893
2024	1,231	1,269
2023	774	1,236
2022	763	1,216
2021	668	872
2020	1,530	1,583
2019	1,334	1,349
2018	1,074	1,407
2017	1,633	1,397
2016	1,443	1,258

Left out of the averages, best and worst, as out of line with the RM’s other years: 2002. Shown as published.

Flax

2025: 30.4 bu/ac.

RM of Montrose No. 315 middle of all Saskatchewan RMs that year

Year	Yield, bu/ac	All RMs, middle
2025	30.4	31
2024	29.7	22
2020	23.8	25.8
2019	25.4	24.4
2016	37 as published	25.7
2015	36 as published	23.6
2014	32.8	22
2013	37.7 as published	27.7
2011	32.7	22.3
2010	30.4	18.7

Left out of the averages, best and worst, as out of line with the RM’s other years: 1945, 1947, 1948, 1988, 2013, 2015, 2016. Shown as published.

Fall rye

2017: 27.9 bu/ac, 18% below the 10-year average of 34.1. In the last 12 reported years, 4 came in more than a fifth under the RM’s average for those years.

RM of Montrose No. 315 middle of all Saskatchewan RMs that year

Year	Yield, bu/ac	All RMs, middle
2017	27.9	38
2016	53.2 as published	50
2015	20.3	34
2014	31.5	33
2013	47.1	35
2011	36.3	32.6
2010	46.7	32.9
2008	28.6	30
2004	61.2 as published	33.6
2002	5	20.3

Left out of the averages, best and worst, as out of line with the RM’s other years: 1961, 2004, 2016. Shown as published.

Mustard

2024: 843 lb/ac.

RM of Montrose No. 315 middle of all Saskatchewan RMs that year

Year	Yield, lb/ac	All RMs, middle
2024	843	645
2013	1,049	984
2011	1,475	800
2010	1,400	826
2004	968	897
2003	626	622
2002	275	579
2001	307	696
2000	1,100	987
1999	825	1,050

Rain and yield, year by year

May to August rain at Environment Canada’s Saskatoon RCS station, the nearest GrainPosition keeps for this RM, beside the RM’s canola yield. Only years with a reading on nine days in ten.

Year	May–Aug rain	Canola, bu/ac
2025	200 mm	54
2024	229 mm	32.7
2023	166 mm	21.8
2022	136 mm	19.9
2021	133 mm	15.2
2020	217 mm	37.1
2019	177 mm	45.7
2018	103 mm	37
2017	128 mm	40.1
2016	220 mm	46.1
2015	143 mm	46.6
2014	219 mm	46.1
2013	184 mm	51.3
2012	375 mm	25.6
2011	201 mm	40.8

One station isn’t the whole RM, and rain is one of many things behind a yield. This season’s rain by town.

RMs around it

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Sources

Yields: Government of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan’s Dashboard (RM crop yields), from the Ministry of Agriculture’s Crop Report and Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation data, published only where confidentiality allows. The Government of Saskatchewan makes no claims as to the data’s accuracy or completeness. Rain: Environment and Climate Change Canada. RM names and places: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada). History, not a forecast; GrainPosition doesn’t tell anyone what to grow or when to sell.

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