Farmers looking on the bright side after major snowstorm in southeast Sask.

Although nobody wants to see a snowstorm take place in the middle of April, there are still some positives to take away from the recent one that hit southeastern Saskatchewan.

Farmers are still dealing with the after-effects of last year’s drought and are happy to take on all of the moisture their crops can get.

Steven Donald is a farmer near Moosomin and said they received roughly a foot of snow over the stretch. Donald is looking at it through a glass half-full attitude.

“Interesting thing though, everywhere we pushed the snow on Saturday, the ground was dry. (It) kinda goes to show the moisture is needed,” Donald said.

However, Environment Canada is calling for more flurries in the same part of the province this week. Donald says this could hurt the beginning of the seeding season.

“The moisture is going to be good but now obviously seeding is going to start later, but we knew it was going to start later already because of the amount of snow we had.

“With the ground being wetter, we’re going to be burning more fuel to get that crop in the ground.”

Donald says the storm did, unfortunately, do some damage to the livestock side of things in his yard and it’s been going on all winter.

“The amount of bedding we’ve gone through or straw is almost twice what we traditionally use just because of the winter and weather we’ve had,” Donald said.

“As far as the last few years (are) concerned, it was definitely more of a challenge this year as far as the amount of snow and the blowing we had to keep the cows high and dry.”

While the snow can still provide proper moisture to the crops, Donald says farmers want to start seeing rain in the forecast moving forward.

“It’s about time now (that) I would rather see rain than snow, in my opinion. I’m not going to complain about moisture, but sometimes it’s nice to have moisture in other forms.”