The recent snowfall has farmers feeling a little more optimistic about the upcoming crop season. 

The additional moisture will be a welcome sight once seeding gets underway in a few weeks. 

One of the first item on the agenda for some producers will be getting a Pre-Seed Burnoff done. 

Regional Crop Specialist Shannon Chant says herbicide resistance results in a loss of product control for specific crops and weeds, especially for pulse crops:

"If you have something that rises to a group two, that's a significant portion of what you have available for lentils, peas, and chickpeas," she said. "So your option for some weeds end up being you have one product or two products for in crop wheat control, so you really have to start looking at different times or different ways outside of the crop or preparing for a pulse crop a year or two in advance."

Studies show that about 54% of cropland in Western Canada has at least one herbicide-resistant weed on the farm.

In Saskatchewan, that means about 22 million acres is impacted. 

Chant says when it comes to weed control issues farmers are reminded to utilize tank-mix options.

"If you use one product over and over again, the rate of resistance for the product is a lot quicker," she said. "If you can rotate that helps, tax mixing helps. If have to have something where if you have two products in a tank both of those products have to control it."

She notes some crops like lentils are not overly competitive when it comes to dealing with weeds, so it’s important to try and seed into a clean weed free field as much as possible.