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Cereals, Crops

Iran now self-sufficient in wheat, president says

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New York | Reuters — Iran has become self-sufficient in wheat and aims to export wheat in the coming months, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday. “We had a good year that led Iran to stop importing wheat. We are planning to export wheat in the coming months,” Rouhani told a news conference on
Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 20

Conditions as of September 12, 2016

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Wet weather over the past week slowed harvest progress in Manitoba. The recent weather is also impacting crop quality in spring wheat and barley. Some crops are being harvested at tough or damp moisture levels, requiring aeration or artificial drying to achieve safe storage moisture levels. Soybeans, grain corn and sunflowers are maturing quickly. Silage
Fresh off the field
Cereals, Crops

Fresh off the field

With winter cereal seeding season upon us, here’s the 2016 MCVET winter cereal yield data

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In Manitoba, interest in fall rye is increasing, with 112,000 acres seeded the fall of 2015. Although winter wheat acres have declined in recent years, there are still very strong economic and agronomic arguments to be made for including winter wheat in rotation. There are a number of newer winter wheat and fall rye varieties,
The Nile River at Cairo. (CIA.gov)
Crops

Egypt bans ergot in wheat, again

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Cairo/Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Egypt reinstated on Sunday a controversial ban on wheat shipments containing even the slightest amount of a common grain fungus, baffling traders who had returned to the Egyptian market just last month when the ban was lifted. The world’s largest wheat importer said on Sunday it was re-introducing its zero
AAC Penhold, SeCan’s new Canada Prairie Spring, pushed insured CPS acres in Manitoba up 1,400 per cent this year, data from the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation shows.
Cereals, Crops, Local news

Manitoba’s insured acres of CPS wheat grow exponentially

SeCan’s new AAC Penhold accounted for 99 per cent of the increase

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Canada Prairie Spring (CPS) wheat has not been popular in Manitoba because of disease issues, but this year insured acres jumped a staggering 1,419 per cent. That translates into an extra 55,547 acres — small compared to insured winter wheat (134,307) and feed wheat (374,131) acres, but it’s a huge jump when compared to last
Khaled Hanafi, Egypt’s minister for supply and internal trading, shown here at a meeting Tuesday, has resigned in the wake of the country’s ongoing probe into purchases of local wheat. (MSIT.gov.eg)
Crops

Egypt’s wheat corruption scandal takes down supply minister

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Cairo/Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Egypt’s Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafi has resigned amid the highest-profile corruption case since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014. Hanafi’s resignation is the most senior-level fallout from a probe into whether millions of dollars intended to subsidize farmers were used to purchase wheat that did not
Haitham Al-Khshali (l), director general of the Grain Board of Iraq and Emmanuel Mshelia of Royal Mills and Foods Limited of Nigeria both participated in Cigi’s annual international program.
Cereals, News

Cigi course highlights customer relations

The reliability of Canadian wheat is the theme of Cigi’s annual international program

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They come from 16 different countries, but have one thing in common — Canadian wheat. Participants in the 49th annual International Grain Industry Program at the Canadian International Grains Institute, better known as Cigi, are in Canada to learn more about where the grain they buy comes from, how it is grown and how it
The Brandon Research and Development Centre held a field tour of its oats and wheat trials on August 3.
Crops, Local news

Local testing of cereal varieties key to determining productivity

Researchers at the Brandon Research and Development Centre are committed 
to testing varieties under local conditions

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On paper that new wheat or barley variety looks like a winner — but how’s it actually going to perform under real-life conditions? That’s the question federal and provincial crop researchers working at the Brandon Research and Development Centre (BRDC) are hoping to contribute to with a host of ongoing variety trials at their 2,500-acre
Close-up of a bundle of wheat
Cereals, Comment

Look back to understand how low wheat prices are

Once inflation adjusted, today’s wheat prices are at historic lows, even below Depression-era prices

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Wheat prices are the lowest in actual value since the Civil War, and only farmers are aware of this. Here is some food for thought. I recently harvested my 64th wheat crop and produced more bushels this year than any other year. Many Kansas farmers have had the same experience. Because of record yields, most
Daryl Beswitherick, the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) program manager for quality assurance standards, says it’s important for farmers to know what wheat varieties they are growing and what class they belong in so they aren’t declared incorrectly at the elevator.
Cereals, Crops, News

New Canada Northern Hard Red wheat class took effect Aug. 1

The West’s ninth milling wheat class is the new home for Faller, Prosper and Elgin ND

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Big changes to Western Canada’s wheat class system took effect Aug. 1, the start of the 2016-17 crop year, and more are coming over the next three years. They’re designed to enhance Canada’s reputation for high-quality, high-gluten-strength milling wheat, while giving farmers the opportunity to grow higher-yielding wheats that have slightly lower strength, Daryl Beswitherick,

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