Farmers and ranchers in the southwest would like to see some moisture.

The latest Crop Report from Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Agriculture shows some hay fields have prematurely headed out and crops have been very slow to emerge and grow.

Crops Extension Specialist Shannon Friesen says while the southwest is dry parts of the southeast are wet.

"We do have areas particularly in the southwest and parts of the southcentral that did not receive very much or any rain at all," she said. "As we move more east, we've heard that many producers have gotten five, six, seven inches even as much as ten inches in some areas, so the rainfall was quite variable."

Now that the majority of this year’s crop is in the ground farmers are busy scouting their fields and rolling pulses.

Friesen says with crops emerging farmers are busy with field scouting.

"As the plants' progress and the weeds progress many producers will be doing their herbicide spraying," she said. "Over the last couple of weeks, they've also been spraying for flea beetles and cutworms in some of those canola fields as well."

The majority of crop damage in the southwest in the last week was due to lack of moisture, strong winds, localized flooding and insects such as flea beetles in canola.