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(Photo courtesy General Mills via Flickr)
Cereals, Crops

Gluten-free Cheerios recall not for Canada

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Gluten-free Cheerios or Honey Nut Cheerios in bilingual English-French packaging aren’t affected by a recent recall over undeclared wheat ingredients, the cereal’s manufacturer says. General Mills Canada said Wednesday that the products it sells in Canada aren’t included in the recall announced Tuesday in the U.S. General Mills recalled several days of production of Cheerios
Selling Canadian wheat
Cereals, News

Selling Canadian wheat

Expand Canada's brand beyond CWRS

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Canada needs to do better at serving traditional markets with high-quality wheat while expanding its ability to serve developing markets, a study commissioned by grain industry groups says. Consistent quality and high-protein wheats have allowed Canada to overcome its freight disadvantage in premium wheat markets around the world, but Canadian exports are less competitive in key
Dale Alderson (l) and Don Campbell of Intel Seed beside the company’s seven-chute AMVT optical sorter.
Crops, News

Optical sorters can add value to grain by taking bad stuff out

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Optical sorters, used to remove unwanted material in grain, are constantly improving and becoming more affordable, says Dale Alderson of Intel Seed. Nowadays a sorter can remove nearly 100 per cent of the ergot in a cereal crop, take wild oats out of tame ones and dramatically reduce the percentage of fusarium-damaged kernels in wheat.
A new paper finds nutritional composition of modern wheat is similar to wheat grown in Canada 150 years ago. (Gloria Gingera/University of Saskatchewan photo courtesy CNW Group/Healthy Grains Institute)
Crops, Markets

Study of CWRS wheats counters diet book’s claims

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Winnipeg | Reuters — The amount of protein in Canadian wheat has fluctuated little in 141 years, according to the most extensive study of its kind, countering claims that radical changes in the grain are making people sick. Dieters have shunned wheat, the key ingredient in bread, cookies and noodles, since the 2011 bestseller Wheat
Eric McLean
Cereals, Crops

Gluten strength improving, but customers remain concerned

After some recent soul-searching, Canada’s wheat industry seems intent on 
restoring its reputation for quality and consistency

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Canadian bread-making wheat, once considered the world’s best, is selling at a discount to American and Australian wheat, according to some southeast Asian customers. Thanks to a shift in varieties, Canadian wheat quality has improved since 2013 when some customers complained about low gluten strength in the Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) class. Meanwhile, the
Dave Hatcher
Cereals, Crops

CGC’s new wheat class reform proposals not carved in stone

Officials explained the reasons for proposed changes and unveiled some 
revisions made after meeting with wheat breeders in Banff last week

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The Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) proposed overhaul of Canada’s wheat class system is truly a work in progress. The CGC released its proposal in a discussion paper Feb. 20 but just last week revised the check varieties it wants used in CWRS and CPS registration trials and in the proposed new class for weaker gluten
testing gluten strength
Cereals

VIDEO: The gluten story

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If you’ve ever chewed a few kernels of wheat to make ‘gum,’ you’ve done a gluten test. Domestic and overseas wheat millers do a somewhat more sophisticated gluten test to determine how flour milled from different wheats will perform in a bakery. The gluten strength of different varieties has been in the news lately, and
meeting room full of people
Cereals, News

Faller, Prosper recommended for interim registration

The endorsement signals new flexibility in the registration system as 
neither fits any of Western Canada’s current wheat classes

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Faller and sister variety Prosper, both high-yielding American Dark Northern Spring wheats, have been recommended for a three-year interim registration, marking a seismic shift in Western Canada’s wheat registration system. Faller has been grown under identify preserved (IP) contracts in Manitoba for two years. The Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale, a panel
variety of wheat grains
Cereals, News

Grain commission kicks off wheat class consultations

Proposes tighter specifications for CWRS and CPSR and creating a new class for weaker U.S. wheats such as Faller

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Canada’s wheat class system could get a major overhaul, including the addition of a new class for lower-gluten-strength American varieties such as Faller The Canadian Grain Commission has issued a discussion paper and wants public comment by April 20 on its proposals, which include tightening the quality specifications for the CWRS, CPSR and Canada Western

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