News - Wheat

With record high yields this year, overall grain production is well ahead of last year’s crop.

The interim board of directors for the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association is pleased to announce that it has received conditional approval from the Province to act as the designate organization for spring wheat and barley farmers in Manitoba.

Canterra Seeds says seed supplies for Western Canada’s first fusarium resistant wheat will be broadly available next fall.

A weather and crop specialist with CWB expects the majority of prairie farmers to be planting more wheat and canola this year.

The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association is proposing a new wheat classification model to give prairie farmers greater and faster access to new wheat varieties.

The Canadian Grain Commission reports upwards of 20 percent of the wheat crops grown in western Canada this year have been infected to some degree by ergot.

A weather and crop analyst with the Canadian Wheat Board reports strong values for milling wheats have tempered interest in growing higher yielding varieties suited for livestock production.

An analysis of winter wheat samples collected this year indicates a more virulent strain of fusarium head blight is displacing the less virulent strain cereal grain growers are familiar with.

A wheat breeder with the University of Manitoba reports scientists are making progress in improving the resistance of wheat to fusarium head blight.

An Alberta based feed research scientist is advising pork producers to ship market hogs fed diets containing high inclusions of wheat dried distillers grains with solubles at slightly higher weights.