Surrounded by wetlands, Manitoba's northernmost farmland near The Pas turns from green to brown over the 2026 season.
Its actively farmed land spans more than 40,000 hectares between the Carrot and Pasquia rivers—tributaries of the Saskatchewan River—and is surrounded by wetlands, including the marshes of the Saskeram Wildlife Management Area to the north.
Sediment eroded from ice-capped mountains splays out across a broad river valley on Russia’s Severny Island.
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Surrounded by wetlands, Manitoba's northernmost farmland near The Pas turns from green to brown over the 2026 season.
Much of the Saskatchewan River Delta, a large inland delta that straddles the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, is too wet for extensive farming.
Known as the Carrot River Valley, the area lies within the Rural Municipality of Kelsey. Its actively farmed land spans more than 40,000 hectares between the Carrot and Pasquia rivers—tributaries of the Saskatchewan River—and is surrounded by wetlands, including the marshes of the Saskeram Wildlife Management Area to the north.
Landsat data feed into the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada annual crop inventory. The 2026 inventory was not released as of late September, but the 2025 map shows that farmers in the Carrot River Valley grew mostly canola and spring wheat that year, along with small patches of Canary seed.
Planting in the area, part of Manitoba Agriculture’s Northwest crop reporting region, began later than in parts of the region to the south because of wet conditions.
The Pas recorded little rainfall in the preceding week, while wetter weather elsewhere in the Northwest region held up the harvest.
Sediment eroded from ice-capped mountains splays out across a broad river valley on Russia’s Severny Island.
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