By Cam Lee

Saskatchewan Agriculture’s crop report reveals seeding has progressed significantly

May 21, 2020 | 11:37 AM

Some significant seeding progress has been made province wide.

Fifty-one per cent of the crop has been planted according to the Saskatchewan Agriculture crop report. That 51 per cent is the five year average.

“Farmers were able to make quite a bit of seeding progress,” crop extension specialist Sara Tetland told farmnewsNOW. “It didn’t rain in most regions of the province, so people were able to get out into the fields that were maybe a little too wet to get into before.”

The southwest corner of the province has the highest seeding percentage at 74 per cent, 59 per cent is seeded in the west-central region, 57 per cent in the southeast, 38 per cent in the northwest, 32 per cent in the east-central region, while the northeast has the lowest percentage seeded, at 26.

“That’s pretty typical for [southern areas] to be a little bit farther ahead [in seeding],” Tetland said. “The snow melts a little sooner and it got warmer a little earlier in April, so I think they were just able to get out into the field a little bit sooner.”

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Of that 26 per cent in the northeast, 72 per cent of the field peas are seeded, 50 per cent of the spring wheat, 37 per cent of the canaryseed, 32 per cent of the barley, 24 per cent of the oats, 12 per cent of the canola, and 10 per cent of the flax is seeded.

Just three per cent of the crop had been seeded in the northeast in last week’s crop report.

Cropland topsoil moisture is rated at two per cent surplus, 75 per cent adequate, 20 per cent short, and three per cent very short. Sixty seven per cent of the hay and pasture land topsoil moisture is rated as adequate.

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