Saskatchewan Agriculture's latest crop report shows crops are generally in fair to excellent condition.
Crops Extension Specialist Sara Tetland says the warm weather and recent rainfall is resulting in more disease issues showing up.
"Farmers have been out in their fields more and scouting for diseases or preventatively spraying fungicides for a variety of different diseases in the province. Including root rot, ascochyta blight and anthracnose in pulse crops, fusarium head blight in cereals and sclerotinia in canola."
She notes key crop pests right now seem to be gophers, grasshoppers and wheat midge.
Tetland says overall most crops are looking pretty good with 86 per cent of the fall cereals,75 per cent of the spring cereals, 70 per cent of the oilseed crops and 82 per cent of the pulse crops are at a normal stage of development for this time of year.
She says most areas of the province saw some rainfall over the past week with the highest amount of precipitation noted at Neilburg with 116 millimetres. The St. Walburg area has received the most rainfall in the province since April 1st reporting in at 376 millimetres.
"In the northeast where they've seen some heavy rain there's some localized flooding of cropsand standing water being reported in low lying areas."
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