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Winter cereal crops are facing down extreme cold warnings without much snow buffer this winter, so what will that mean for spring?
A dry fall caused Prairie producers to hesitate before pulling out the seeding rig
As of Aug. 1, 2014, CDC Falcon moves to the Canada Western General Purpose class from Canada Western Red Winter
Winter wheat growers in Manitoba have some new options to consider after their overwhelming favourite, CDC Falcon, moves to the Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) class Aug. 1, 2014. That class is usually composed of feed and ethanol feedstock wheats, which don’t fetch the premiums paid for milling and baking wheats in the Canada WesternHigh potential yields, good prices and relatively low production costs have a growing number of farmers interested in winter wheat
It will be a month or so yet before Manitoba farmers get a peek at the winter wheat crop that lies beneath this winter’s heavily insulated snow blanket. Manitoba farmers seeded an estimated 560,000 acres of winter wheat under less-than-ideal, dry conditions last fall, but at least it’s well insulated with lots of snow. “I
