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Spring Planting Advances Quickly in Saskatchewan
Shannon Friesen - Saskatchewan Agriculture

Farmscape for May 25, 2018

Saskatchewan Agriculture reports continued dry weather over the past week has allowed spring planting progress to advance ahead of the five year average.
Saskatchewan Agriculture released its weekly crop report yesterday.
Shannon Friesen, a Cropping Management Specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture says soil conditions remain dry and farmers would like some rain but planting has moved ahead quickly.

Clip-Shannon Friesen-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
70 percent of the crop is now in the ground so we've essentially doubled our progress over the last week.
Last week at this time we were only at 35 percent.
This also pulls us well ahead of the five year average of only 55 percent for this time of year.
We've really had a good stretch of relatively uninterrupted seeding.
Field conditions have been optimal even though they've been dry in many areas so, for the most part, things have progressed very well for us.
The Southeast Region is the most advanced with 82 percent now seeded, the Northeast region follows with 77 percent, the Southwest is 72 percent, the West Central is at 66, the Northwest at 65 and the East Central has 53 percent of the crop now seeded.
Crop wise that is a little bit of everything going in but we should be closing in on the last of the pulse crops, cereals are still underway as well as canola and quite a bit of the soybeans are now going in as well.
Crops have been very slow to emerge which is no surprise seeing as how we've had dry conditions.
But all it takes is just a little bit of rain and some heat and a lot of those crops can really jump.

Friesen says right now crop development is at or behind the normal stages for this time of year.
She says, for the most part, crops are in good condition but there has been some damage from the lack of moisture and from some strong winds, there have been a few reports of cutworms in some of the canola fields and flea beetles are also being reported.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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