76 percent of the crop has been seeded in Saskatchewan, with the west being a little ahead of the east. That’s below the five year average at this point of the season of 93 percent.
According to the latest numbers from Sask Agriculture, some rain has slowed things down in the eastern part of Saskatchewan, while the west is pretty much done.
The southwest has 97 percent of the crop in the ground, west-central is at 95 percent, 93 percent in the north west, 64 percent in the south east, 60 percent in the north east, and 50 percent in the east central region.
Provincially, 96 per cent of lentils and chickpeas, 93 per cent of field peas, 91 per cent of durum, 79 per cent of canary seed, 75 per cent of spring wheat, 69 per cent of barley, 66 per cent of canola, 65 per cent of flax and 51 per cent of oats have been seeded to date.
Crop land topsoil moisture is rated as 16 percent surplus, 56 percent adequate, 19 percent short, nine percent very short.
