Seeding Continues As Farmers Work Around The Moisture

Seeding is well underway in Western Manitoba.

Intermittent rainfall has delayed some seeding but for the most part operations are underway across the region.

Ron Krahn farms in the Rivers area and he’s about a quarter done his seeding. “We started last Monday and were able to seed all of last week. We thought we’d run out of dry fields by the end of last week, but the sun and winds made a big difference. He adds things look pretty good.”

“Our fields are plenty wet and we have lots of sub soil moisture from last year. We were wet last spring so many of the low spots that didn’t get seeded last year they didn’t have any crop to hold moisture so the lows spots this year are quite wet.”

Ron Krahn is pleased to be on his fields well before the May long weekend. Last year he said they did some seeding by the long weekend but put the bulk of their crop in after the long week in May.

“This feels earlier than last year but when you look at the long-term averages it’s definitely on the later side but it’s not too concerning.”