Farmscape for October 11, 2016

Saskatchewan Agriculture reports rain and recent snowfall have impacted the ability of farmers to plant fall seeded cereal crops and could impact the survivability of the crops that were planted.
Saskatchewan's latest crop report, issued last week, indicates the 2016 harvest is running slightly behind the five year average and has been further delayed by additional significant rainfall and recent heavy snow.
Daphne Cruise, a Cropping Management Specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, says, the abundant precipitation through July, August and September that has slowed the harvest and reduced crop quality, has also made planting the fall seeded cereals difficult.

Clip-Daphne Cruise-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
I think producers, from all indications, were trying to get fall seeding done in between waiting for harvest to continue but, there again, we need our crop off in order to put the new crop in for the fall seeded.
As far as differences in seeded acreage for winter cereals over last year, I don't have that number but, definitely dealing with things like trying to get weeds under control before seeding was an issue because of all the moisture as well as finding days to seed because of the recent rain events that have come through basically all through August and into September as well.
It sounds like there's some winter wheat crops that are up and doing quite well.
It's just now, this snowfall that, depending on the stage of the winter wheat crop, we may see some effect on it but time will tell and we'll have to assess those damages if there is going to be any next spring.

Cruise says a lot of the winter cereals were planted in the southeast where they always tend to lead the province in terms of harvest progress and, up until a couple of weeks ago, things were looking pretty good.
She says now we've had a couple of significant rainfall events in the southeast and some producers have mentioned, in some of the low lying areas, there's some localized flooding but it's hard to tell what impact the rain and snow will have so time will, come next spring.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.

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