Farmers in Manitoba may face big losses this year after an extremely wet spring and stormy early summer, the head of the province’s largest agriculture lobby group says.

The soggy conditions have kept many producers off their fields, while those who were able to get on earlier in the year likely have submerged seeds or plants pummelled by hail.

“Anywhere where we’ve had excess moisture, the crop really has suffered, hasn’t come up,” said Jill Verwey, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers, looking over her farm near Portage la Prairie, about 85 kilometres west of Winnipeg, on Tuesday.