The crop report which was released by the provincial agricultural ministry on Thursday says 51 percent of the of the crop is in the ground.

Here in the east-central region that number drops to 30 percent.

Paul Senko farms on his family's homestead about 12 kilometres north of Lanigan. He talks about why they decided to grow barley, canola, flax and some oats.

"You have to watch the markets and see what's coming up and what was at a good price last year. It might change but you have to watch and see what the forecasts are like, that's a big decision when it comes to planting a new crop."

Senko says they farm one thousand acres and have about one to two weeks to go depending on the rain forecast.

"We didn't start until after the snow there so that was just fine and we got rolling and really took off. We should be done it about a week but if it rains it could push it back further yet."

Seeding is most advanced in the southwest, where producers have 70 percent of the crop in the ground.  Sixty percent of the crop is seeded in the southeast; 56 per cent in the northwest; 53 percent in the west-central region; and 29 per cent in the northeast.