Farmscape for May 22, 2018

Saskatchewan Agriculture reports, for the most part, cereal crops planted last fall have survived the winter but they will need rain to flourish.
Saskatchewan's Agriculture's crop report, issued Thursday for the period from May 7 to May 14, indicates rain is needed across much of Saskatchewan.
Daphne Cruise, a Cropping Management Specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, says, while she does not have up to date numbers on the acres of winter wheat planted across Saskatchewan last fall, the crop is primarily grown in southern part of the province.

Clip-Daphne Cruise-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
The winter wheat looks like it survived the winter for the most part in most areas.
There was some concern about our lack of snowfall in the south regions and what kind of winter kill that would have on the crop, especially since we had some fairly cold temperatures in January and February but it sounds like, for the most part, things are coming up fairly nicely.
There are some patchy areas but I think producers are still doing their assessments to see if that crop will be worth keeping.
In many cases, most of the time the winter crop is worth keeping when you consider what it's going to cost to terminate that crop, what it's going t cost to re-seed a new spring crop and what that might mean for yield.
As far as moisture goes I think the winter wheat crop could use some moisture right now and I think producers are also looking to do any top dressing to those winter wheat crops that maybe didn't get put on last fall.

Cruise says farmers are still assessing the fall seeded crops but she suspects the late spring has delayed their development so a good rain would be welcomed right now.
She says the northeast, northwest and east central areas are doing well in terms of moisture but the southern, west central and central regions could use a good half inch to inch of rain so everybody would be a little relieved to receive some rain, especially considering last year's dry conditions.
For farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.

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