The 2019 Growing season has varied across the Canadian Prairies this year. Manitoba started off really dry but had enough moisture to germinate most cereal crops... Cereal crops like Oats, Wheat, Barley and Rye get seeded deeper and the seeds can reach moisture much easier. They are looking great ! Again they put down a good root system early in their life when the roots had to search for moisture. Canola seeds needs to be about 1/2 an inch to 1 inch deep.. that part of the soil was quite dry... (especially in Saskatchewan ) Canola has had a rough start and was effected by dry weather and flea beetles, frost and cutworms And EVEN gophers munching small parts of fields. Once we started to get adequate rainfalls and warmer temperatures the canola was able to get ahead of all the adversity... It is generally the hardest worker on any farm and it will fill in the blank spots and is currently thriving ! Here are a field of peas on Ron's Kernels field near Brandon. I took pictures periodically from just after it was seeded in May till today July 15,,, As they used to say in the 60's Give Peas a Chance... these peas are thriving too ! Stay tuned for further growth