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Cereal crop quality reasonable as harvest looms

Unsurprisingly, a late spring has translated into a delayed harvest this year

Despite getting off to a later-than-normal start, early harvest results show reasonable grade and yield in the province’s cereal fields. “I would say the quality in general, how it’s looking in the field, is good,” says Anne Kirk, Manitoba Agriculture’s cereal specialist. Roughly half of the winter cereals (winter wheat and fall rye) have been



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Larger spring wheat crop expected in U.S.

USDA expects reduced total worldwide wheat crop

MarketsFarm — Early indications point to a much larger spring wheat crop in the United States in 2022 compared to the drought-stricken 2021 crop despite the late seeding, according to the latest production estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In USDA’s first official production estimates of the growing season breaking out the different wheat