After a fairly unique winter and spring season, producers are getting ready to get back into the fields. 

After last year's harvest, there were concerns that the lack of precipitation would leave farmers will inadequate moisture levels in their fields this spring.

Kindersley's Regional Crop Specialist John Ippolito said it wasn't until around March of this year when that moisture started to arrive. 

"The snow in March, in particular, was really good news," Ippolito said. "because one of the bigger concerns prior to that snow was whether surface water supplies for livestock would be filling up or not."

He said in the last few weeks, that's turned out to be less of a concern as warm temperatures have quickly melted any remaining snow, and topped up water supplies. 

"Water supplies, dugouts and slews will be pretty much full now," Ippolito said. "So that's been good news."

He added it also appears that soil moisture levels are enough to accommodate plant germination.

"So that kind of eases everybody's mind when we definitely have adequate soil moisture for germination," Ippolito said. "As a matter of fact, if we're held up a little bit with seeding starting, it's maybe so that the fields dry out a little bit. So I think by-in-large, we're in a good spot moisture wise for starting."

Ippolito said he's already seen one person seeding this week, but said that was an uncommonly dry field, and doesn't expect many people will start seeding until late next week. 

"I don't anticipate seeing wide-spread seeding until sometime next week," Ippolito said. "I would suspect by the end of next week for sure, by May the 7th, I would expect to see seeding pretty wide-spread."

Ippolito added, compared to last year, we should be out in the fields a few weeks earlier. 

"We were probably later last year I would say," Ippolito said. " Given that we were very wet and had some of that harvest that had to be finished up as well."

Ippolito said there won't be much pre-work to be done on the fields, and most farmers will be able to get straight to seeding once their fields have dried up.