Ripe wheat near Selkirk, Manitoba in late August, 2024. | Greg Berg photo

Prairie spring wheat looks like a bumper crop

Many farmers express surprise as harvest numbers point to yields possibly reaching a new high this year

Canada will likely set a new record for spring wheat yields this year, topping the previous mark of 54.1 bushels an acre set in 2020.

As Canada’s seed industry nears long-awaited regulatory reform, stakeholders remain divided over who should lead certification and how data should be collected, issues that could shape the future of farming from seed to harvest.
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Five years and counting: Inside Canada’s seed regulatory overhaul

Canada’s seed rule modernization is finally seeing the end of the tunnel, but not everyone’s convinced about the changes or that the timeline is good enough, given agriculture’s quick-changing landscape

Canada’s seed rule modernization is finally seeing the end of the tunnel, but not everyone in agriculture is convinced about the changes or that the timeline is good enough.






A sunflower crop in bloom near Rathwell in central Manitoba in late July 2025.

Made-in-Manitoba sunflower hybrid heads to market

Manitoba Crop Alliance lands U.S. co-operative CHS to commercialize the first confection sunflower variety to come out of their homegrown breeding program

Manitoba’s confection sunflower growers will have a new seed option next spring that was developed specifically for perform in the province. The pending commercialization of one of their hybrids is a milestone for the Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA), the commodity group that represents the province’s sunflower growers. The organization has invested in its own sunflower