Saskatchewan Agriculture reports a cooler than normal growing season and inconsistent rainfall have resulted in considerable variability in crops across the province.
Saskatchewan Agriculture released its weekly crop report yesterday.
Cory Jacob, a Crop Development Specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, says crop development and condition across the province remain highly variable with the majority of crops reported to be ranging from poor to good.
Clip-Cory Jacob-Saskatchewan Agriculture:
We have had a bit of a cooler growing season so that's definitely been influencing growth and maybe why we're not seeing crops advancing as normally but I think we're not doing too bad.
We're hoping for some hot weather coming here and maybe with some moisture on the horizon as well it should get crops coming up and growing along.
We are doing not too bad for moisture conditions in the province.
Provincially topsoil moisture on the cropland is rated as two percent surplus, 84 percent adequate, 13 percent short and one percent very short.
So the crop development is quite variable across the province.
We're hearing reports from producers that some crops are normal, some are a little bit behind by maybe a week or two.
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