A hat in a field of AAC Westking wheat highlights the variety’s strength and standability.  |  Richard Cuthbert photo

New variety aims to grab Prairie wheat crown

Developers of AAC Westking are confident the new variety will supplant AAC Brandon as the spring wheat of choice

Glacier FarmMedia – Can a single wheat variety become synonymous with prairie spring wheat production? If so, it would be AAC Brandon. One of the most widely grown Canadian Western Red Spring wheats in Western Canada for the past nine years, Brandon first hit the seed market in 2014 and quickly became a farmer favourite, […] Read more

Red Fife became a popular wheat variety in Western Canada almost as soon as settlers began farming the region in the late 1800s.  |  File photo

The seed that changed Canada’s wheat industry

WINNIPEG — For more than a century, Canadian wheat has been sold, promoted and exported around one virtue: it produces top quality flour and bread. Thanks to breeding innovations and good fortune, Canadian wheat has set the global standard for high-quality milling wheat for about 120 years. The strong relationship between Canadian wheat and high […] Read more