Saskatchewan seeding update

Approximately 35 per cent of all crops have been planted

By Diego Flammini
Assistant Editor, North American Content
Farms.com

Thanks to some favourable weather conditions, producers in Saskatchewan have planted about 35 per cent of total crops.

The percentage is only one per cent higher than the same time last year; but represents a large jump from 2014, when only seven per cent of the total crop was planted at this time.

The number is also well above the five and 10-year averages, which are 10 and 12 per cent, respectively.

The southwest region of the province has planted the most with 58 per cent of crops. The southeast has planted 51 per cent; 26 per cent in west-central Saskatchewan; 23 per cent in the northeast; 21 per cent in the northwest and 17 per cent in the east-central region.

Saskatchewan has its cropland topsoil moisture rated as two per cent surplus, 74 per cent adequate, 21 per cent short and three per cent very short.

Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture is rated as one per cent surplus, 61 per cent adequate, 32 per cent short and six per cent very short.