Wet, cool weather delays seeding in Saskatchewan
MELFORT, Sask. – Producers continue working in their fields seeding, harrowing, and spraying when the weather allows.
Just 14 per cent of crops are now seeded, up from one per cent last week and behind the five-year average of 23 per cent.
The southwest region has 34 per cent of their crop seeded, followed by 20 per cent in the west-central, seven per cent in the southeast, five per cent in the northwest, three per cent in the east-central and one per cent in the northeast.
Crops extension specialist Matt Struthers said any fields, especially in the eastern half of the province, are still too wet to seed.