“COVID hit the beer industry hard," Kevin Sich of Rahr Malting said.

Bad cheer for beer

A rough year for North American barley quality and quantity means a tough year for maltsters and brewers, training program hears

A bad year for barley means maltsters and brewers will have to get creative on where and how they get their malt. “The North American brewing industry in general is going to be facing a lot of challenges this year,” said Peter Watts, managing director of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre (CMBTC). Watts spoke

A sunflower field in north Winnipeg in 2018. Total sunflower seed production fell more than 20 per cent in 2021.

Manitoba crops down across the board: StatCan

From spring wheat to dry beans, Manitoba farmers self-reported lower yields

Manitoba farmers reported a decrease in production of spring wheat, canola, soybeans, corn for grain, oats, barley, dry beans and sunflower seeds. The 2021 estimates come from a StatCan survey of 3,133 Manitoba farmers conducted from October 8 to November 12. Spring wheat Total spring wheat production fell 29.2 per cent to 3.7 million tonnes



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Canola declines, durum drops in new StatsCan estimates

Soybean, oats estimates raised

MarketsFarm — There were very few surprises in Statistics Canada’s latest principal field crop production estimates released Friday — the first in 2021-22 to use a survey of producers. Nevertheless, they quantified just how severe last summer’s drought was in Western Canada. Canola production for the 2021-22 marketing year was estimated to be 12.595 million