The last few weeks have seen a lot of precipitation in southern Manitoba, making for soggy conditions almost everywhere, including farmers' fields.

MacGregor area farmer Curtis Sims is seeing what he calls polka dots on his land, as well as some of his neighbours. He says the impact on crops is mixed.

"The winter wheat looks like nothing ever happened, to look at it. We'll see with the combines. The spring wheat looked pretty sick, some of it, but it's recovered back probably a reasonable crop, to look at it. Canola's a little patchy, up and down. Edible beans are probably a Crop Insurance special. Even the soybeans, they stand quite a bit of water, but they're looking pretty yellow in some fields, in some areas -- not going to be a big crop."

Curtis Sims

Sims thinks the prolonged moist conditions will have some impact on crops.

"We're not going to win the lottery this year, that's for sure. But it looks reasonable, it may average itself out, between one crop and another. The corn is up and down, some, but it's still half way reasonable. So, hoping for an average year, but it's not going to be a bin-breaker, just too many of those zeroes out there, scattered around the fields for that, but maybe not too bad."

Sims says what producers need now is sunshine and heat, with no more rain.