Industry officials are flummoxed by recent wheat market behaviour. Hard Red Winter Wheat (HRWW) July futures tumbled 16 percent between April 18 and May 2. The freefall was due in part to a two-day rain during the last week of April that delivered up to 100 millimetres of moisture to parts of the southern U.S. […] Read more
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U.S. Plains farmers brace for historically poor winter wheat harvest
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Production prospects for the U.S. winter wheat crop are the worst in recent memory in core areas of the Great Plains following a three-year drought, farmers and crop experts said. “I don’t know how to put it into words how bad it is,” said farmer Gary Millershaski in southwest Kansas, among the […] Read more
Wheat market reacts to rain in U.S. Plains
Industry officials are flummoxed by recent wheat market behaviour. Hard Red Winter Wheat (HRWW) July futures tumbled 16 percent between April 18 and May 2. The freefall was due in part to a two-day rain during the last week of April that delivered up to 100 millimetres of moisture to parts of the U.S. Southern […] Read more
Winter camelina could fill prairie rotation gap
An Agriculture Canada researcher has found a variety from the United States that can tolerate cold winters
Winter wheat acres are in a free fall. In 2015, prairie growers seeded about 680,000 acres of winter wheat. Since then, acres have consistently dropped, hitting 335,000 acres in 2018, based on Statistics Canada data. Much of the decline can be blamed on poor conditions in late summer and early autumn. Soils were perhaps too […] Read more
Winter cereal producers in holding pattern as clouds loom
Dry conditions in southern areas of Saskatchewan and Alberta are limiting winter cereal seeding so far, as farmers wait for rain. But that’s not the best strategy, according to Cordon Geisam, southern Saskatchewan/southeastern Alberta territorial manager for FP Genetics, a Regina-based seed company that deals in fall rye hybrids. Geisam said farmers who wait for […] Read more
Dryness challenges winter wheat seeding
The arrival of August means harvest will soon be underway for growers across the West. For winter wheat producers, it also means that the ideal window for seeding winter cereals is just around the corner. Paul Thoroughgood, a winter wheat producer and regional agrologist with Ducks Unlimited, said juggling harvest operations with fall seeding can […] Read more
World wheat off to good start
Conditions in EU good, China improving | Analyst doubts Crimean conflict will disrupt exports
Winter wheat crops are shaping up nicely around the world despite dryness in the United States and the threat of war in Ukraine, says an industry analyst. “Globally it looks like the winter wheat crop is going to be most likely larger than last year,” said Bruce Burnett, CWB weather and crop specialist. The U.S. […] Read more
Now: New winter wheats offer feed, milling potential; Then: New winter wheat for use in northwest
NOW: The two million acres of prairie farmland seeded to winter wheat this fall pale in comparison to the tens of millions of acres dedicated to the crop in the United States. However, the number shows significant growth from a few decades ago, when a few hundred thousand acres were grown in Canada, mostly for […] Read more
U.S. winter wheat growers assess recent frost damage
Temperatures below -7 C | Damage won’t be known until the weather warms up
A struggling U.S. winter wheat crop suffered what could be a serious blow last week when temperatures dropped below freezing for long stretches twice in 48 hours in large portions of the southern plains. “There’s a pretty widespread area where plants look really bad right now because of that freeze event,” said Justin Gilpin, chief […] Read more
Dry fall sets back winter wheat acres in Sask.
Nearly 200,000 fewer acres were seeded in Saskatchewan while Manitoba acreage dropped by only 20,000
Dale Hicks was determined to seed winter wheat this fall, even though his soil resembled hardened concrete. “It was so dry (in September) I couldn’t get the drill in the ground,” said Hicks, who farms near Outlook, Sask. “You’d put a drill in the ground and it would just skate on top, or pull up […] Read more
