Temperatures have been consistently\u00a0below average in Western Canada this Spring and as a result seeding will likely be delayed 2-3 weeks compared with the average of\u00a0recent years. Overnight temperatures have continued to fall below zero in many\u00a0areas of the Prairies, keeping the soil from warming up. A recent low pressure system brought snow to the Western Prairies creating further delays, although more average temperatures are forecast for the balance of the month of April.<\/p>\n
At this time last year farmers in\u00a0southern Alberta had commenced seeding and about 15% of total barley acres had already gone in. This year farmers hope to start\u00a0seeding by the end of April. The last time that Prairie farmers seeded late was 2013. That year farmers seeded\u00a0past mid-June, which is not\u00a0optimal. Some acres were\u00a0also left unseeded. Under the present conditions, farmers in the northern tier of the Prairies may struggle to seed their crops before June 10, which is the last day that crop insurance is available for this year’s seeded crops.\u00a0 While there is still lots of time to get the crop seeded, the window has been reduced due to the unseasonably cold conditions.<\/p>\n
In the US, the same conditions apply to Montana, as in southern Alberta, lots of snow cover and cold temperatures are threatening to impair timely seeding. In North Dakota, the cold temperatures and snow events will push seeding back closer to the end of April or early May. Idaho is the only state that has commenced seeding and they are around15% seeded to date.<\/p>\n
The weather has become a talking point in Canada and the market is realizing that farmers will be seeding late. This is a an area of concern that will have to be monitored in coming weeks.\u00a0 Meanwhile a strong feed barley market in Western Canada has resulted in a lot of malting quality barley being sold into the feed sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Temperatures have been consistently\u00a0below average in Western Canada this Spring and as a result seeding will likely be delayed 2-3 weeks compared with the average of\u00a0recent years. Overnight temperatures have continued to fall below zero in many\u00a0areas of the Prairies, keeping the soil from warming up. A recent low pressure system brought snow to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmbtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmbtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmbtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmbtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmbtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cmbtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/cmbtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmbtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmbtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmbtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}