The Government of Saskatchewan does not say a single farmer has developed a crop in the ground and things are not looking much better farm elsewhere across the prairies waterlogged.
Spokesman for Saskatchewan Agriculture Grant McLean said spring seedlings are delayed in the province due to flooding, with the region of the southwest of the province particularly soggy. But McLean said it is still early and there is much opportunity for a strong culture of 2011.
"We still consider may as our domination seeding months in many cases, we are always optimistic," he said. "We will have the opportunity to take advantage of the moisture and get some quite good crops, once that we get mother nature cooperant and enter us in the field".
Farmers in southwestern Saskatchewan are usually first in the field. But this year they may be the last seed, or even not at all.
"Sooner or later, it has to do better."-Farmer Alfred Sattler
McLean said with favourable weather, some farmers in less flood-prone regions may be able to start working their fields in ten days.
Alfred Sattler, who has been farming near Regina since the 1940s, said he has never seen a wet spring as this spring.
Tending his cattle for the moment, he is still optimistic things can turn around crop-wise.
"You just hope and pray that the climate is changing." That it is improving. Sooner or later, it was better, "he says.
But if conditions not improve quickly and then Sattler, 70, said he cannot put any seed in the soil for the first time in his life.
"He bored a little." But, what can you do? What can you do about it? Pray and hope that things change in the coming days.
In Manitoba, Gene Nerbas, who farms a few kilometres south of the Shellmouth dam, just north of Russell, Manitoba, said streams turned to rivers and floods by land has devasated of hundreds of thousands of hectares.
"It with water from Saskatchewan," said Nerbas, adding he would probably planted a crop in for the second consecutive year.
Several parts of southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan are flooded. CBCElsewhere Manitoba - in the Southwest, the Valley of the Red River and regions Interlake - fields are completely flooded and will need weeks of good weather to dry things. And even when the fields are fairly dry work, many farmers will have to spend time to their fields clearing debris prior to seeding.
Sunday, meanwhile, residents of the First Nation of Roseau River South of Winnipeg continued to leave this community. Responsible for emergency measures were trying to determine where evacuees could go, with temporary Winnipeg already shelters fill with people of another community inundated North of the capital, First Nation of Peguis.
It is expected that all residents of 850 Roseau River will join to almost 1,000 others who left their homes because the safe road access in and out of their home was flooded. Manitoba two of its Amphibex ice machines moved to the West end of the province to remove ice jams on the Saskatchewan River and Carrot River, which created conditions of high water near The Pas.
There are currently 30 States of emergency declared by the municipalities in Manitoba and 77 provincial roads have been affected by flood waters, 52 that are closed. Approximately 650 municipal roads are closed.
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