Frey said first assessments are good for how winter wheat and fall rye crops fared over the winter.
“There’s enough heat in some areas where we’re starting to see plants breaking dormancy and beginning to gain a bit more green colour and to grow actively, but winter kill assessments for many fields are still to come. So, it’s a little bit of a wild card there.”
Frey said there are very preliminary forecasts of what can be expected for main crops this year.
“It’s anticipated that there’s going to be 3.22 million acres of wheat, which is up a bit from last year. Canola down a little bit to 3.12 million acres compared to 3.34 in 2024 and soybean acres up a little bit. That’s probably not a surprise with what we know about some of those challenges for the canola market in the last couple of months,” he said. “Overall, if you do the math, those percentage changes are fairly minimal, so I think farmers are figuring things out.”
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