It shouldn't be surprising that those areas that are drier got started with seeding a little bit earlier.There's still some issues out there when it comes to water.They're calling for a large rain down there in the southeast so that’s going to delay producers for quite some time, depending on the amount of rain that's received and the soil textures and the topography.There's a lot of factors that go into that.That might delay them a bit.What we need is some nice warm weather across the province to allow producers to get all that seed in the ground.When it comes to seeding deadlines, Crop Insurance has their deadlines.I believe the last one is June 20th.
It all depends on what crop you're seeding so it's important for producers to understand when those deadlines might be and to make sure that they're getting the crop in the ground before those deadlines if they're for insurance.A lot of important decisions to be made but, hopefully, the weather will turn around and hold out for us and we're able to get the seed in the ground.
Struthers says we're sitting at nine percent of the seed now in the ground in the province compared to about 23 percent in an average year but, if the we get some warm weather in the coming weeks, we'll see that number pick up quickly.
Source : Farmscape.ca