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Farmers are busy picking up seed and fertilizer as they get ready for Spring Seeding.

Cropping Management Specialist Grant MacLean said temperatures for the most part are still to cool to think about seeding adding that ideally you want the soil temperature to range from 5 to 10 degrees for most crops, “If you get the crop up and have a frost event occurr and damage cotyledonson some of these pulses. They aren't as resiliant as some of the cereals where the growing point remains under the soil until at least the 3 leaf stage and so you are a little more resiliant.”

McLean adds seeding in the southern part of the province is expected to begin about the end of April, “If you get that seed in the ground to soon you certainly risk late emergence as well as increased chances of mortality and some cases diseaes occuring if you put those little seeds into a cold seeding enviroment.”

Ideally soil temperatures should range from 5 to 10 degrees ... Peas are generally the first crop in the ground.