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Spring seeding well underway in Europe

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Reuters / Spring seeding is in full flow in western Europe with a sharp rise in area expected in Britain after wet weather wrecked autumn plantings, but a significant drop is anticipated in Germany due to much more favourable conditions. In France, the EU’s top grain producer, conditions were generally satisfactory, with mild, dry weather
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Winter wheat a money-making crop

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High 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
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Ukraine winter wheat in good condition

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Reuters / No more than 400,000 hectares of winter grain crops, or up to five per cent of the sown area, are likely to be reseeded this spring against 1.5 million hectares in 2012, a senior Agriculture Ministry official said Feb. 19. “We expect the reseeding of three to five per cent (of winter grain
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Too soon to give up on winter wheat

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The Prairie winter wheat crop may have been left looking a bit worse for wear due to unusually low snowfall cover, but there’s still life lurking below those browned-off stalks. That’s because it takes more than just a tap on the head to kill winter wheat, said Outlook, Sask.-area farmer Dale Hicks, who is also
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Crops briefs, Jan. 12

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Drought dents Brazil crops Sao Paulo/Reuters/ Two important Brazilian corn and soy producers Parana and Rio Grande do Sul made sharp cuts to crop forecasts Jan. 5 after weeks of harsh, dry weather dented prospects for a soy crop that as recently as this week some still expected to be a record. Brazil’s biggest soy
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Signs Of Trouble In Snow For Russia’s New Crop

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Conditions for Russia’s coming harvest are not as favourable as thought, industry observers said Feb. 26, citing evidence of patchy snow cover and potential lack of supplies for spring sowing. “It doesn’t look as optimistic as it might,” president and chief executive of Russia’s SovEcon think-tank Andrei Sizov told a conference in Altai, a key
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DUC, Bayer, Support Winter Wheat Research

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Canada’s top winter wheat breeder has been awarded a $600,000 grant to continue his work – even though he’s winding down his breeding program. But University of Saskatchewan plant scientist Brian Fowler says new winter wheat cultivars from his breeding program will continue to appear for years to come. For example, a new cultivar named
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Empty Fields Raise Winter Wheat Potential – for Sep. 2, 2010

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Western Canada’s highest unplanted farm area in decades could lead to farmers sowing this summer record-high acres of winter wheat, a Canadian Wheat Board official say. Western Canadian farmers left an estimated 10.5 million acres unplanted this spring due to heavy rains. That has left the land available for planting winter wheat, which farmers sow
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Winter Wheat Research Financed

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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) is providing just over $1.25 million to Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC), three Prairie province winter wheat producer commissions and its funding partners to increase winter wheat acres across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. “Improved varieties and good management by producers have made winter wheat one of the most profitable crops over

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