By paNOW

Possible diesel shortage could hurt Saskatchewan farmers

Apr 24, 2013 | 5:02 PM

There has been some growing concern of a possible diesel shortage due to a much shorter seeding season.

“There was talk of a shortage if everbody gets to seeding at the same time and has a full seeding season,” said President of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) Norman Hall.

That doesn’t seem to be the case so far this year as areas round Lethbridge have begun seeding, with that trend slowly moving east.

“With a staggered seeding season going from west to east, as opposed from south to north, hopefully we can avoid any kind of shortages,” Hall said.

The scary thing for him is that areas further to the east, including at his farm, may not get to seed at all before the final day of the crop insurance deadline.

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“There’s the cold weather that we’ve got right now and we still have a lot of snow to get rid of,” he said.

“Normally we get rains in May and June, so how much would that hamper our seeding efforts.”

Hall says that when you consider all of the factors, he’d rate how worried he is about a diesel shortage as a three out of 10, with 10 being the most worried.

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