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Dry Conditions On Both Sides Of The Atlantic

By Marie Maitre June 16, 2011

Drought from Paris, France to Paris, Texas has farmers and grain dealers looking upwards – to the skies for signs of rain. U.S. wheat prices are on their way to their biggest weekly gain and European benchmark wheat futures have jumped just under 30 per cent in the past nine weeks as wheat belts on

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“Point Of No Return” For U.S. Hard Winter Wheat

April 28, 2011

Prolonged drought conditions through Texas, Oklahoma and southern areas of Kansas, the top U.S. wheat-growing state, have left wheat industry experts fearing there is little hope for much of the new wheat crop due to be harvested this summer. Indeed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week said fully 38 per cent of the entire

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Changes Coming To CWB’s Select Winter Wheat Program

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board has made changes to its select winter wheat program in hopes of transporting and marketing the crop more efficiently. In the past, farmers signed Guaranteed Delivery Contracts for select winter wheat throughout the crop year. Now farmers hoping to market the winter wheat they planted last fall as select must register

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What’s CDC Falcon’s Future?

March 31, 2011

The Falcon isn’t taking off just yet. Shifting CDC Falcon, Manitoba’s most popular Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) wheat, to the Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) class, will likely be delayed a year and possibly two. “What was made very, very clear in the consultation process was that Manitoba Falcon is one of the main

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Committee Approves 14 New Varieties

By Laura Rance-Unger March 3, 2011

The federal decision in 2009 to axe kernel visual distinguishability as a requirement for registering wheat varieties in Canada prompted lots of frowns among grain handlers and farmers. But at least one plant breeder is smiling. Anita Brlé-Babel, a winter wheat breeder from the University of Manitoba, received approval from the Prairie Wheat, Rye and

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China’s Wheat Crop Hurt By Drought

February 17, 2011

Wheat output in China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of the grain, may be at risk after severe winter drought in its main northern producing regions, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization said. “Substantially below-normal rainfall since October 2010 in the North China Plain, the country’s main winter wheat-producing area, puts at risk

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Drought In U.S. Winter Wheat Fields Worries Experts

By Carey Gillam December 16, 2010

U.S. wheat experts are growing increasingly concerned about the new winter wheat crop in parts of top producer Kansas and other Plains states, as persistently dry conditions erode production potential. Drought conditions are plaguing the entire western third of Kansas, which routinely is the top U.S. wheat-growing state, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a

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U.S. Plains Rain Provides Little Relief To Dry Wheat

December 2, 2010

Light rains that fell over the driest areas of the U.S. western Plains last weekend provided little relief to the young wheat crop which will soon turn dormant, a forecaster said Monday. “You are still looking at a situation that continues to deteriorate in those western areas – western Kansas, eastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska,”

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Parched Hard Red Wheat Belt In Western U.S. Looks For Rain

November 25, 2010

CHICAGO/REUTERS Light rain hit the eastern areas of the U.S. Hard Red Winter wheat belt Nov. 17 but the parched western region stayed dry, raising concern the crop will not be well established before winter, a forecaster said. “It will stay unfavourably dry over a good percentage of the crop belt, 40 per cent or

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Kane No. 1 In Manitoba

By Allan Dawson November 4, 2010

Kane is still the king of wheats in Manitoba af ter dethroning longt ime monarch AC Barrie last year, but Glenn and Harvest aren’t far behind. Kane, a relatively new variety, accounted for 25.4 per cent of the Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat acres seeded in Manitoba this spring, according to the Canadian Wheat

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Tag Archives Winter wheat

Dry Conditions On Both Sides Of The Atlantic

“Point Of No Return” For U.S. Hard Winter Wheat

Changes Coming To CWB’s Select Winter Wheat Program

What’s CDC Falcon’s Future?

Committee Approves 14 New Varieties

China’s Wheat Crop Hurt By Drought

Drought In U.S. Winter Wheat Fields Worries Experts

U.S. Plains Rain Provides Little Relief To Dry Wheat

Parched Hard Red Wheat Belt In Western U.S. Looks For Rain

Kane No. 1 In Manitoba

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