Reading Time: 1 minute Fargo, N.D. (Reuters) — Yield potential for spring wheat grown in the northern U.S. Plains was projected as the highest on record, with the crop benefiting from timely planting and cool weather, according to results from an annual crop tour. Scouts on the Wheat Quality Council’s three-day tour of North Dakota, the top spring wheat […] Read more
U.S. spring wheat yield projections highest ever
29 varieties to be removed from CWRS and CPSR classes
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Grain Commission has announced that as of August 1, 2017, 29 varieties will no longer be eligible for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheat classes. The list (see below) of 25 CWRS and four CPSR varieties includes formerly popular varieties such as Katepwa, Harvest and Kane as […] Read more
Needed: Soft white winter wheat
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s been a long time since soft white winter wheat was a volume leader in eastern Canada, but the speed with which red wheat grabbed market share has made soft white winter varieties very scarce, with the market for it uncertain and hard to balance. Like food-grade soybeans, soft white winter has fallen to growers familiar […] Read more
New in winter cereal crops
A few tough years for winter wheat have led to some great new opportunities
Reading Time: 3 minutes Planting conditions in the falls of 2013 and 2014 were difficult, to say the least. Only 800,000 acres of winter wheat were planted in 2013 (with roughly 675,000 acres harvested last year) and about 600,000 acres planted last fall. Early assessments done in the spring labelled many of those fields as, at best, “decent.” Winter […] Read more
Good wheat prospects in central N.Dakota
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Reuters) — Spring wheat has good yield potential in west-central North Dakota, aided by early planting, scouts on one leg of an annual crop tour said on Wednesday. Crop scouts on the Wheat Quality Council’s tour traveling one route in west-central North Dakota made six stops, mostly in McLean County, and projected an average yield […] Read more
Sask. crops get soaked, but may take yield hit
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Reuters) – Two days of rainstorms in Saskatchewan, Canada’s biggest wheat- and canola-growing province, may have done more harm to crops than good, even though farms were parched, a Saskatchewan government official said on Wednesday. Much of the province received rain on Monday and Tuesday, with the capital, Regina, collecting about 90 millimetres (3.5 inches), […] Read more
Above-average wheat yields in southern North Dakota
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hebron, ND (Reuters) — Spring wheat prospects are above average in southern North Dakota, scouts on an annual crop tour said on Tuesday. Crop scouts on the Wheat Quality Council’s tour travelling one route in south-central and southwestern North Dakota made four stops and projected an average yield of 45.6 bushels per acre (bpa), above the […] Read more
CWB tour pegs wheat at 38.9 bushels
Reading Time: 2 minutes Regina / Reuters —Western Canada spring wheat, durum and canola yields look to fall sharply from last year’s levels, due to hot, dry conditions, leaders of a crop tour said on Friday. The second-annual CWB Market Research Services crop tour pegged spring wheat yield potential in the region at 38.9 bushels per acre on average, down […] Read more
Durum faring better in SE Alta: CWB tour
Reading Time: 2 minutes Skiff, Alberta / Reuters — Durum, the wheat used to make pasta, has fared better against dry conditions than other major crops in a pocket of southeastern Alberta, crop tour scouts noted on Wednesday. Durum is typically planted in drier soils than spring wheat, but fields still looked surprisingly decent, given some of the driest […] Read more
Spring wheat yields puny in dry Alberta: CWB tour
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lethbridge/Reuters — Spring wheat yields measured less than half of last year’s results in drought-stricken southeastern Alberta, but were on track to set a record high in southern Manitoba, during a Canadian crop tour that saw the results of wildly contrasting weather. The tour organized by CWB Market Research Services is travelling on three routes […] Read more
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