It's only February but the owner of a Marc Hutlet Seeds at Ste. Anne says farmers have already made most of their decisions about the crops they will plant this spring. Marc Hutlet adds it appears there will be some changes based on crop outcomes in 2017.

Marc Hutlet at a crop tour last August"Given the performance of the crops this past year, a lot of the early crops such as cereals and canola were very good. So, canola acres will certainly be flat to up, there won't be any less at this point, they had a very good year. Cereals had a very good year, especially wheat, and so wheat acres will be relatively the same or up."

But he says that's not the case for corn and soybeans.

"Corn could be flat to down. We had some areas that were really impacted by our mini-drought or arid conditions last year. And, soybeans had an off year. They never really recovered from some of the weather and insect elements that were thrown their way and we were probably peaking, in terms of acres, because of rotation previously. So, probably less beans at this point."

Hutlet expects there are still a few acres that farmers are leaving open, waiting to see what commodity prices will do as we approach spring. But he reiterates most of the seeding decisions were already made before Christmas.