The sunshine and warm weather is certainly being welcomed by southern Alberta farmers who are itching to get into their fields.
Many farm fields are either soaked or completely flooded out after an excessive amount of snow fell this past winter.
Many farmers are getting a very late start on seeding their crops because of all the moisture.
Near Blackie, Ross and Roy Newman are finally starting to seed their crops.
They are in their second day of seeding and say this spring they're getting off to a late start because there was so much snow in the fields.
"Studies show and we all know that the earlier you get the seed in the bigger the yield is, with the mountains right behind me, we don't have a long growing season here, and if we don't get it in early then the frost on the other end gets us," said Roy Newman.
The soggy conditions can bog down equipment and then it takes even more time to seed. That in turn, increases the cost of fuel and fertilizer.
Roy Newman says he can likely make up time and have all his crops in on schedule if the weather stays warm and dry.
