While some farmers are busy with the harvest, others are thinking about seeding. In many areas of the province, this is the ideal window of opportunity when it comes to seeding winter cereals.

Cory Jacob is a regional crop specialist with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Agriculture, and he says there are a number of advantages to seeding winter wheat.

"Well really, with winter wheat, I like how it spreads out the work load in the spring and in the fall," he says, "it goes in, in kind of that August/September time line, then when you are harvesting, it is usually the first crop you harvest."

He adds seeding winter cereals is also one strategy to help manage herbicide resistant weeds because it throws the weeds off balance.