Agriculture Roundup for Friday May 8, 2020
A new Statistics Canada survey indicated Saskatchewan farmers will seed more oats and wheat this spring but less barley, canola, and dry peas.
The March survey said spring wheat acreage will be steady at 8.7 million acres while durum will jump 6.7 per cent.
Oats will be up less than one per cent while canola will be down 2.3 per cent to 11 million acres.
Barley will fall to three million acres, down 4.7 per cent and peas will drop two per cent to 2.3 million acres.