Saskatchewan’s 2010 crop is one per cent in the ground as of Monday, according to the weekly report from the province’s ag ministry.
Seeding was farthest ahead in the province’s southwest and southeast, where four and one per cent of acres are seeded respectively, ahead of rain showers which rolled through much of the province’s cropland last week.
Due to rainfall last week and the week prior, over 50 per cent of northeastern Saskatchewan’s cropland is considered to have “surplus moisture,” the province said Thursday in its crop report for the week ending April 26.
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In the southwest and in west-central areas, over 20 per cent of cropland is “short” or “very short” of moisture.
Across the province, topsoil moisture conditions were considered 12 per cent surplus, 75 per cent adequate, 12 per cent short and one per cent very short. Topsoil moisture on hay land and pasture is rated as six per cent surplus, 71 per cent adequate, 20 per cent short and three per cent very short.
Pasture conditions are rated as five per cent excellent, 43 per cent good, 33 per cent fair, 13 per cent poor and six per cent very poor, the ag ministry said.
Eighty-nine per cent of livestock producers have adequate water supplies for their livestock, while 11 per cent are short of water for their animals, the province said.
