Provincial producers making strides in seeding

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The southeast has 66 per cent seeded, the west-central region is sitting at 72 per cent seeded, the east central region has 42 per cent seeded and the northwestern region is at 68 per cent.

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Here in the northeast region 42 per cent of the crops have been seeded which Cruise said is up significantly from 13 per cent last week.

“Seeding progress does range in [the northeast]. Areas around Melfort have been going pretty good … Around Prince Albert, and if we go further northeast towards Nipawin, things are a bit more behind then compared to Melfort depending on soil moisture conditions and what kind of rain events [the region’s] experienced the past few weeks,” Cruise explained.

The cool weather has delayed the emergence in a lot of cases, but Cruise said they are getting indications that some crops are emerging.

“In most cases, [crops are in] fairly good condition. With the warm temperatures, we’re going to be getting here in the next week or two weeks, then hopefully that crop can do some catch up and get out of the ground and ready to go.”

Weekly Crop Report

Topsoil moisture conditions around the provinces are rated at 10 per cent surplus, 68 per cent adequate, 20 per cent short and two per cent very short.

Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture is rated as eight per cent surplus, 67 per cent adequate, 19 per cent short and six per cent very short.

However, conditions do vary around the province.

In the last week the province has seen varying ranges of rain from none to 49 millimetres.

In some areas, cooler weather has delayed germination and crop development.

Frost has even been reported in some areas, so producers are looking for damage to their crops.

In some wet areas, there are even reports of machinery getting stuck and access to certain roads being cut off.

On the other side of that, there are some producers who are looking for rain to help topsoil that’s become too dry.

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