Spring Seeding activities are winding down around the province.

Shannon Friesen is a Crops Extension Specialist with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Agriculture.

She says right now about 91% of the Provincial crop is in, that’s up from 70% last week.

"The Southwest region is the most advanced as they now have 95 per cent of the crop seeding, 93 per cent is in the Southeast, 92 per cent in the West Central region, the Northwest is 90 per cent, the Northeast region follows that 87 per cent and the East-central region now had 86 per cent seeded."

The majority of crop damage this past week was caused by strong winds, lack of moisture, and insects such as flea beetles and cutworms hitting the canola.

Overall, emerged crops are in poor-to-good condition, but emergence has been patchy and delayed by dry field conditions.

However topsoil moisture conditions around the Province have improved slightly with recent rainfall.

Topsoil moisture conditions on cropland are rated as 1% surplus, 51% adequate, 36% short and 12% very short.

Friesen says it just depends on what areas get the rain.

"For the most part rainfall ranged from very small amounts, up to about three inches, around the Humboldt area, we have heard as well around porcupine plain that they had up to three or maybe four inches," she said. "We did get a little bit of rainfall over the last couple of days, and the forecast is looking that we may have rain over the weekend as well."

She notesMoose Jaw also saw some rain this week along with significant hail that didn’t do too much damage to crops as they are just emerging.