Farmscape for June 2, 2017

Saskatchewan Agriculture reports, while the majority of crops planted to far are in good condition, emergence has been slowed in some areas due to a lack of moisture.
Saskatchewan Agriculture released its weekly crop report yesterday.
Shannon Friesen, a Regional Crop Specialist, with Saskatchewan Agriculture, says planting now stands at 81 percent, up from 61 percent last week and right in line with the five year average, with progress variable from north to south.

Clip-Shannon Friesen-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
Emerged crops are in fairly good condition, anywhere from fair to excellent really depending on where you are in the province.
In the south part, particularly the Weyburn area for the southeast as well as the southwest area, is dealing with a lack of moisture so a lot of crops have been very delayed in terms of germination and emergence.
In some cases they are still sitting in dry ground.
We've also been dealing with some flea beetle issues, some cutworms, we did have some frost damage as well so some of those canola fields as well as some of the flax have been reseeded as well or will be in the coming weeks.
Over all things are just starting to emerge and we're hopeful for some heat in the north and some rain in the south so that things can really get growing.
Provincially cropland topsoil moisture is rated as 11 percent surplus, 75 percent adequate, 12 percent short and 2 percent very short.
On hayland and pasture it is 5 percent surplus, 70 percent adequate, 23 percent short and 2 percent very short.
Even tough overall things appear to be in good condition, we do have variations in the south where we have short to very short topsoil moisture in a lot of areas and in the northeast and parts of the northwest and west-central we are dealing with surplus topsoil moisture at this time.

Friesen says farmers in the south will be looking for some rain to get the crops growing while farmers in the north will be looking for heat to dry things out and allow planting to move forward.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.

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