Farmers here in the southeast are awaiting the arrival of warmer, drier weather to start spring seeding. Kevin Peters of HerbSigWil Farms at Randolph says they'd like to get started by next week.

"We would like to start as soon as we can, as soon as the weather allows and the soil temperatures warm up and it's dry enough so that we can actually get on our fields and do a good job of seeding. We're dreaming of the end of the week but temperatures may indicate next week."

Farmer Seeding His Field in 2015

Ken Krahn, who farms near Niverville, is also hoping to get going next week.

"I guess if we look back to last year, we had our earliest start ever in the middle of April. This year it looked like it was going to be the same but now we've had a bit of cooler, wet weather and so we haven't started turning any wheels yet but hopefully next week."

Both Krahn and Peters say, while commodity prices are not great right now, they are optimistic there will be good marketing opportunities for their crops this year. Both say they are mostly sticking with their usual crop rotations although Krahn notes they will make one change.

"We're putting in some field peas this year. The market is quite strong for that. Peas don't like too much water so hopefully we get off to a good start and don't have excessive rains and then I think we should do fairly well with that."

Meanwhile, Peters says their winter wheat is looking good.

"We have just over 500 acres of winter wheat in the ground and it's greening up really nicely. It looks like it's survived very well."