Several farmers in the Portage area are now winding up their harvests for the season, and note it's been a pretty good run for the summer.

"It's coming along pretty good," says Craig Finnie of Finnie and Wishart Farms Limited. "The last few days were great and it looks like the next three or four days are going to be good. That should finish up the soybeans, and then we'll just have corn left. I don't know if it'll be ready for a week or two. But we'll finish the soybeans probably in about four or five days I think."

He notes they finished cereals and canola before the most recent rains began, and they were pretty good harvests this year. Finnie says edible beans are almost completed with about 25 acres left. He adds soybeans weren't so good as the others this year, but were an average crop, adding they could've used more rain in August.

Finnie says corn will begin in a couple of weeks and will take a week or ten days to fully harvest putting them with a completion date approximately befopre the end of October or the first week of November.

Oats and canola were somewhat earlier, but that was also due to them having been seeded earlier this year. Finnie adds if the weather remains as it was yesterday, things will be great! They could do without the rain until after harvest. When the rain did come it was during disking and cultivating, and was just about right for field work although perhaps a bit too much for other aspects of the farm.