Raju Soolanayakanahally of Agriculture Canada was showing old and new wheat varieties during the Ag in Motion farm show earlier this summer.  |  Ed White photo

VIDEO: Prairie wheat history comes to life in crop plots

Agriculture Canada grows a living museum that highlights the history of wheat development in Western Canada

LANGHAM, Sask. — Newspapers are chronicles of the history they cover in real time. If one goes far back into The Western Producer’s archives, they will find frequent references to famous names like Red Fife, Marquis and Thatcher, which were the dominant wheat varieties of their times. Those names are seldom heard nowadays, but Agriculture […] Read more