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Wheat crops respond well to better management.

Some don’t like it hot — and that’s key to big wheat yields

Wheat growers should start thinking about frost seeding or 24-hour seeding  shifts to get their crop in the ground as early as possible

By Jennifer Blair January 5, 2016

It’s time to start treating wheat like it’s a “real crop,” says Ontario agronomist ‘Wheat Pete’ Johnson. “Wheat is the most responsive crop to management we grow, and yet it’s the crop that we manage the least,” Peter Johnson said at the Farming Smarter conference last month. “You just put it in the ground and

Elaine Sopiwnyk (l) and Ashok Sarkar have completed a year-long project looking at how to co-mill wheat and barley.

Cereals, Crops

Cigi looking to expand barley’s role

The ability to make barley-related health claims is helping drive the development of new, healthier flours

By Shannon VanRaes December 9, 2015

The term ‘barley sandwich’ is about to get a whole lot more literal. The Canadian International Grains institute, better known as Cigi, has completed a year-long project examining how blending barley into traditional wheat flour could improve both nutritional properties and milling performance. On its own, barley can be difficult to mill, often clumping and

Crops, News

Canada’s trade relationship with China built on wheat

Canada offered to sell China food when no one else would do business with a Communist regime

By Laura Rance-Unger December 8, 2015

Canada played a major role in helping overcome the famines that stalked the Chinese people through the late 1950s and early 1960s. It sold wheat to the People’s Republic of China at a time when other countries refused to deal with the Communist regime of Mao Zedong, which had seized control in 1949 after a

Two proposed bylaws will be discussed at the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association’s annual meeting Feb. 11, 2016, says association executive director Brent VanKoughnet. One deals with checkoffs and the other advance voting for director elections.

Cereals, Local news

Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association considers bylaw changes

Three of the association’s six director positions are also up for election

By Allan Dawson November 23, 2015

Two proposed bylaw changes will be considered at the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association (MWBGA) annual meeting Feb. 11, 2016 during the Crop Connect conference at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg. One bylaw deals with checkoffs and the other with director elections, association executive director Brent VanKoughnet said in an interview Nov. 12. Information

The Canadian Grain Commission is still consulting the grain sector on proposed changes to Western Canada’s wheat class system, including the idea of a new milling wheat class that could be called Canada Northern Hard Red. The expert Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Oats and Triticale is voting at its annual meeting at Banff in February.

Cereals, News

Western Canadian wheat class consultations coming to a head

CGC proposing creating a new milling wheat class

By Allan Dawson November 12, 2015

Canada Northern Hard Red could be the name of a new western Canadian milling wheat class being proposed by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC). However, both the class and the proposed name aren’t a done deal, say CGC officials Remi Gosselin and Daryl Beswitherick. “We’re going back to industry stakeholders and engaging in discussion to see

Crops, Weather

Heavy rains threaten Australia’s east coast wheat crop – traders

By Colin Packham, GFM Network News November 4, 2015

Sydney/Reuters – Heavy rain falling along Australia’s east coast could put up to half of wheat production from the country’s second largest grain producing state at risk of quality downgrades, traders said on Wednesday. As much as 100 millimetres (3.9 inches) of rain is expected to fall across New South Wales on Wednesday and Thursday, forecasts

Crops, Weather

Drought to shrivel Ukrainian wheat harvest in 2016

By GFM Network News, Pavel Polityuk, Reuters November 2, 2015

Kiev — Severe drought across half of Ukraine has hit winter sowing and could sharply reduce the country’s 2016 wheat harvest, a senior state weather forecaster said on Monday. The drought, in which the central Dnipropetrovsk region suffered its driest autumn in 50 years, could lead to a 20 per cent year-on-year fall in the wheat

Russian harvesting technology has advanced beyond that illustrated in this Soviet-era poster.

Crops

Black Sea in it for the long haul

The Former Soviet Union, once Canada's largest wheat customer, is now its largest competitor

By GFM Network News October 29, 2015

Black Sea wheat exports are projected at an all-time high this year, and there is good reason to have confidence in this forecast. During the 2015/16 marketing year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that the states of the former Soviet Union excluding Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia (FSU-12) will export a record 45 million

Durum’s higher protein and gluten content make it best suited for pasta processing. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets

Prairies see high-protein wheat crop, but few premiums

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus October 16, 2015

CNS Canada –– Every year is a different story for wheat crop quality and protein levels — but the saturation of high-protein wheat in the market may mean fewer premiums for Prairie growers this year. The premium price for high-protein wheat has eroded to the point where there’s a shift from grain companies in the

Crops, News

Grain backlog no impact on farm incomes: Ritz

A study says it cost farmers billions

By Allan Dawson October 15, 2015

The grain-shipping backlogs between 2013 and 2015 had “no negative dollar impact” on Prairie grain farmers, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Oct. 13 in response to a recently released study putting the losses in the billions. University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist Richard Gray has published a study estimating grain-shipping delays during the winter of 2013-14

Daily Network News

Russian grain ship believed sunk in Ukrainian drone attack found, towed to shore, TASS says

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier

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