The Executive director of Winter Cereals Canada is advising farmers planning to seed winter wheat this fall to secure seed as soon as possible and to choose Emerson.
The executive director of Winter Cereals Canada says fusarium head blight has been the biggest factor affecting the quality of this year’s winter wheat crop.
The executive director of Winter Cereals Canada says weather over the next two weeks will play a key role in determining the condition of this year’s winter wheat crop coming out of the winter.
The executive director of Winter Cereals Canada and the Saskatchewan Winter Cereal Development Commission reports, despite the recent warming trend, the majority winter cereal crops planted last fall remain well protected by snow cover.
The executive director of Winter Cereals Canada says abundant snow cover in much of Saskatchewan and Manitoba should provide the protection necessary to allow cereal crops planted last fall to survive the winter.
Winter Cereals Canada reports the number of acres of seeded to winter wheat last fall across the Canadian prairies was about the same as the previous year but the distribution has changed.
The executive director of Winter Cereals Canada expects Manitoba farmers to begin changing the winter wheat varieties they plant over the next couple of years in response to the move of CDC Falcon to the Western General Purpose class.
Canterra Seeds says the planned move of CDC Falcon from the Canada Western Red Winter class to the Western General Purpose class has heightened the level of interest among winter wheat growers in AC Emerson.
The executive director of Winter Cereals Canada says this year’s late canola harvest could result in a reduction in the number of acres of winter wheat planted this fall in western Canada.
Canterra Seeds expects a new variety of winter wheat, scheduled for broad-scale introduction in the fall of 2014, to be particularly popular in areas of western Canada most susceptible to Fusarium Head Blight.
