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Wheat quality manager Rhett Kaufmann speaking at the official opening of Bayer CropScience’s wheat breeding centre near Saskatoon last summer. Bayer is investing $1.9 billion into wheat worldwide over 10 years, including $24 million in Canada.
Cereals, Crops

Wheat breeding: Public or private?

Some argue private investment will boost yields, but others note that public breeders have done a pretty good job so far

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Making wheat a more competitive crop requires public and private breeder co-operation — and getting a return on investment from farmers buying seed. That was the consensus among panelists discussing wheat breeding at the 3rd Canadian Wheat Symposium in November. “My observation would be that ultimately farmers are going to be paying for this one […] Read more
Italian pastas. (RussoTiesi.com)
Cereals, Crops, Reuters

Italy’s pasta labeling plan raises Canadian concerns

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg/Rome | Reuters — Canada has raised concerns with Rome about Italy’s plan to require country-of-origin labels on pasta sold there, Canada’s agriculture minister said on Wednesday about a move that is alarming Canadian wheat exporters just as a free trade deal gained European approval. Rome sent a draft decree to the European Commission in […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Cereals, Crops, Markets, Weather

‘Mini-harvest’ likely to weigh on feed grains

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– Seasonal lows in the Western Canadian feed grain market may stick around longer than normal this year, as the industry awaits the abnormal spring harvest of those fields left to overwinter this year. “The seasonals are fairly consistent,” said Jim Beusekom of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge, adding “we usually see the […] Read more
CDC Austenson (centre) with CDC Dolly (left) and Xena (right). Austenson is prized for high yields and test weights and Xena for its good fusarium head blight tolerance.
Barley, Crops

Halting the feed barley decline

Many growers still take a yield penalty in hopes of a malting premium, but breeders say feed varieties offer advantages

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Feed barley has some tough competition. Once the second-largest crop by far on the Prairies, in recent years it’s had to compete for acres with canola and pulses. And while malting premiums are still tempting some growers, feed barley has to compete with cheap U.S. corn and corn gluten. As for the formerly touted qualities […] Read more
Durum wheat. (Gipsa.usda.gov)
Crops, Spring Wheat

Durum acres to decline in 2017

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– Canadian farmers are sitting on large stocks of poor-quality durum, which should cut into acres seeded to the crop this spring. Durum stocks in the country, as of Dec. 31, 2016, came in at 6.9 million tonnes, marking a new record for that date, according to Statistics Canada data going back to […] Read more
(Weetabix.ca)
Cereals, Crops, Reuters

Four food firms said preparing bids for Weetabix

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Reading Time: 2 minutes London | Reuters — The third-biggest U.S. cereal company, Post Holdings, and the U.K.’s Associated British Foods are among a group of four bidders vying for British cereal brand Weetabix, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The 84-year-old business could fetch at least 1.5 billion pounds (C$2.48 billion), based on a valuation of more […] Read more
(Doug Wilson photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets, Oats

Canada’s oat acres look to rise in 2017

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– Canadian oat acres will likely be up in 2017, as relatively favourable cash prices draw in interest from producers, according to an oats merchandiser. Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) oat futures have climbed sharply higher over the past month, but are still trading at a discount to the relatively steady cash market. […] Read more

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