Wet weather causes havoc with seeding in the area
Wet fields and dealing with last year’s crop left in the fields by an early fall snow are continuing to hamper area farmers getting spring seeding in this year.
Last week Saskatchewan Agriculture said that estimates show that 11 per cent of the 2017 crop is now seeded, which was a stark contract to 2016 when 35 per cent of the provinces fields had been seeded.
Producers in the southeast parts of the province have approximately 30 percent of the crop in the ground while 18 per cent has been recorded in the southwest. Saskatchewan Ag reports the average from 2012 to 2016 for seeding for this time of year is 16 per cent.
Darren Soderberg, who has a farm in Medstead, says he has 450 acres in so far this year and there is still plenty to do.