Although it's been mild winter on the Prairies, the chair of Winter Cereals Canada says the weather hasn't been troublesome for dormant crops.

Dale Hicks says winter wheat probably makes up 85 per cent of the wheat grown world wide, and many of these growing regions have milder winter climates.

"Winter cereals in general can actually take a fair bit of spring frost, so that soil temperature has to be at five degrees Celsuis (before there are concerns)," Hicks says. "So there are days we've been close to five degrees, but the crop never really took off and went reproductive and started throwing new growth. It's started to green up, it's started to turn on, but now that we've had this colder week, it's sitting still."

Hicks says the ground is still frozen, but once the soil reaches five degrees Celsius for an extended period time, the winter cereal crops will turn on and set seed. Only after that point would a frost event be a major concern.