Seeding in the northeast on track
After a slow start, producers in the northeast have caught up to the rest of the province on seeding.
In fact, with 87 per cent of the 2013 crop in the ground, northeast producers are actually slightly ahead of both regional and provincial five-year averages.
“Well, there was very little or no rainfall and so seeding progressed rapidly this past week, said Grant McLean, a crop specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, adding the five-year average for the northeast is 85 per cent.
Across the province 83 per cent of the crop has been planted, which is on par with the five-year average of 82 per cent.