Spring seeding in most of Manitoba is going at a very fast pace. Although not record early, it is certainly a relief after last year’s difficulties. Most of the cereals are seeded at the time of writing and in central Manitoba, producers are busy with beans, corn and other later seeded crops. Hopefully, we will not be hit by a late spring frost and we may be set up for an early harvest. Some pockets of Saskatchewan report problems with too much moisture with heavy rains and a high water table due to the excess moisture of 2011. Most of the rains in Manitoba have been near perfect and earlier drought concerns are gone for now. With the current high crop prices there is a lot at stake for producers as a good crop will almost certainly mean that there will be a profit to be made for most crops.

Livestock producers are indicating very good growth of their forage crops and most yards are easily accessible. What a difference a year makes! Let’s all hope that the favourable weather continues and enjoy the good conditions that have come our way.

This past winter has been a very busy one for our company. Due to the optimism in most farming sectors and the strong economy in Western Canada we had one of the busiest sales seasons in recent memory. The result of this is that we are a little short on listings. Should you consider selling your farm property this may be a good time to talk to one of us, we can probably find you a buyer at a very competitive price.

On our website, you will find from now on videos of all our listings. We plan to update this regularly and put new listings on as soon as we can get our camera man out to the farms. Especially for international clients, this will be a great improvement over the DVDs that you might have received in the last few years. Should you still be interested in a DVD, please let Shiela know and she will be happy to send you one. We always look forward to hearing from you either with comments on our website or any other issue that you want to pass on to us. We do try to keep our site updated and interesting with regular new content, so should you have some ideas for us, please let us know.

On behalf of Sheldon, Stacey, Junior and Shiela I wish you a good spring and all the best in your farming activities.

Dolf Feddes