Many farmers wait to start seeding

Wickett said when he begins seeding, he will be starting with barley, followed by red lentils and wheat. But, he said he will hold off until after the weekend.

“I’m hoping to resist the urge to seed until next week, looking at next Monday,” he said. “But, as any farmer can attest, when you’re sitting in the yard and all of your neighbours are going, that’s a tough thing to do is sit there.”

Cupar area farmer Rodney Macknak is planning to start soon. He said soil moisture is good.

“There were still some areas where the frost wasn’t completely our of the ground yet so that’s why we’re waiting a bit. It’s a little better start then what we had last year,” he said.

Macknak finished combining the over wintered 2019 crop which included nine quarters of wheat.

“We got back about 80 per cent of it. We had two quarters of canola that’s a little on the lighter side, but we still managed to get about three-quarters of the yield we would normally get,” Macknak said. “We had lentils that we just couldn’t get to that we just ended up plowing under. There was no value in it whatsoever.”

Macknak said crop quality didn’t seem to deteriorate a lot over the winter and he was happy to get off what he did.

“We’re still happy what we got out of in,” he said.

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by Alice McFarlane

Many farmers wait to start seeding

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