News - Seeding

Manitoba Agriculture reports spring planting has moved from about 10 percent compete to about 48 percent complete over the past week.

A weather and crop specialist with CWB reports seeding is now underway in much of the southern prairies and is expected to become fairly general over the next week to ten days.

A weather and crop specialist with CWB reports, despite this year’s late start to spring planting, the majority of prairie farmers will be able to plant the crops they had intended to plant.

The Canadian Wheat Board reports, despite unusually warm March weather, spring seeding is close to on par with normal.