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By Angie Rolheiser

Seeding Progress

Very dry conditions continue as seeding gets close to wrapping up in some areas

May 19, 2021 | 2:00 PM

The arrival of the May long weekend might mean the completion of seeding in some areas of the province.

The wait continues for much needed rain as farmers continue putting seed in the ground.

In the Muenster area, George Hinz said the rain will be more than welcomed.

“The top three quarters to an inch is basically powder dry but we do have good subsoil moisture below that,” Hinz said. “Cereals we are usually an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half deep anyhow so that is normally where we would seed.”

Provincial crops extension specialist John Ippilito said seeding is going very well in the Kindersley area.

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“We have had really good progress, somewhere in the neighbourhood of 80 percent,” Ippilito said. “A lot of people indicate that sometime this week they will actually be done seeding.”

The last little bit that is being seeded right now is being planted as deep as possible into moisture rich depths without planting directly into it, he said.

“The surface is dry, there is about 12 inches of depth of soil moisture so there is a little bit underneath it to carry it once it gets up and going but it probably won’t carry it for all that long,” Ippilito said.

There has not been much weed growth and farmers in many cases have delayed spraying.

Gaylord Dennis is the location manager with Rack Petroleum in Perdue west of Saskatoon. He said there hasn’t been a lot of crop emergence in the Perdue-Asquith area and estimates that about 65 to 70 percent of seeding is done.

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