Some farmers like to get the early start on seeding while others prefer to wait.

Rosetown area farmer Jim Wickett is planning to start rolling next Monday.

“I’m hoping to resist the urge to seed until next week. I’m looking at next Monday, but as any farmer can attest when you are sitting in the yard and all your neighbors are going, it’s hard to sit there. So, we’ll see.”

As of Monday, Wickett said only a small percentage of farmers in his area had started seeding.

“I would say maybe 10 or 15 percent have started. There are lots of sprayers going now, but that’s about it.”

When Wickett starts seeding it will be barley, followed by red lentils and wheat.

Down at Cupar—about 80 kilometres northeast of Regina—Rodney Macknak is planning to start seeding on Wednesday or Thursday.

“The soil moisture is good. There are still some areas where the frost isn’t completely out of the ground yet, so that’s why we’ve been waiting a bit. It’s a little better start hopefully this year than we had last year that’s for sure.”

Macknak finally put the the 2019 crop to bed a couple of weeks ago. The bulk of it was nine quarters of unharvested wheat.

“We got back about 80 percent of it. We had two quarters of canola, but we managed to get about three-quarters of the normal yield. Then we had lentils that we ended up just plowing under. There was no value in it whatsoever.”

The wheat and canola quality did not seem to deteriorate a lot over the winter.

“The wheat was feed going into the fall, but it held up pretty good through the winter. It was a little on the lighter side as well as the canola too. We were still happy with what we got out of it anyways,” Macknak said.