It’s going to be some time before farmers are back in the field after all this snow and moisture.

Daphne Cruise is a Crop Management Specialist with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Agriculture.

She talks about some of the problems we could see in the field with this week's heavy wet snow:

"The oil-seeds can handle a bit more weathering. But again, the lodging is going to be a factor.

I think we'll start to see producers take the crop off on the tough side.

So now instead of managing it in the field, they'll have to manage it in the bin yard with aeration and grain drying," she said.

Cruise says some crops handle the snow better than others.

"If the crop is still standing, we're probably going to be seeing lodged crop once we do get back onto the field, which makes harvest that much more time consuming - the combines have to go slower and the headers have to be closer to the ground.

We'll probably still see quality deterioration with the crop that's out there especially when it comes to the cereals - things like bleaching and sprouting and even in some cases, mold and mildew may be starting to show up," she said.

The latest crop report shows 80% of the crop is in provincially, 88% in the southeast, 81% in the southwest, 77% in the east-central region, 73% in the west central and 78% in the north.