Dave Pulfer hasn't been on the combine in a week, and it's starting to get to him.

The Weyburn-area farmer has 150 acres left standing out of the 600 he was able to plant in the soggy spring.

But rain, frost and even snow flurries have ground harvest activity to a halt, with local farmers still under 70 per cent finished. Province-wide the unsettled weather held harvest gains to just two per cent, from 88 per cent last week to 90 per cent this week.

Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food estimates there are still at least three million acres of crop left in the field.

"It certainly causes some pressure, for lack of a better word. You'd like to get it done, just get something finished," said Pulfer. "But with this weather, nothing is curing."

Extension Agrologist Elaine Moats says it will take two weeks of co-operative weather before the harvest in this area is complete. She says most farmers haven't been able to turn a wheel for 10 days to two weeks.

Under those circumstances farmers have some tough decisions to make - like whether to take the frost-damaged grain off tough or let it dry out in the field.

Even with warm weather during the day, Moats says at this time of the year crops will toughen up with cooler weather at night, cutting down on the amount of time producers can spend in the field.

"A lot depends on whether (a farmer) has a drying facility or not. Many people with crop still out in the field have aeration bins full of tough grain," says Moats.

Pulfer wonders whether drying is worth it.

"It's hard to justify drying stuff when the quality is gone and the price is so low," he says.

McTaggart farmer Stephen Jacob has been picking rocks and preparing his land over the past week. He was able to finish combining by the first week in October.

"We're done, but of course we never got done seeding, so we have significantly less acres than normal," he said.

Normal for Jacob is 1,600 acres. He was only able to plant 800.

"My grade was good with all of it and yields are average to good, but of course the price of everything is just pathetic. I can't remember getting such pathetic wheat checks, myself. Even the flax was low," he said.

For the 30 per cent of remaining crop in the field, extension agrologist Elaine Moats says anything that was green before the killing frost has been downgraded to feed or sample grade.

"In some cases it was so green the crop didn't get a chance to set seed. A lot of crop, particularly in the RMs of Scott, Wellington and Weyburn, has serious downgrading due to frost damage resulting in yield and grade loss," Moats said.

Other crop damage has been caused by large flocks of ducks and geese.