Insights and Stories on Wheat

Genetic codebreaking on wheat years ahead of schedule

Jan. 6, 2016 at 7:55 pm CST

Sequencing the infamously complex genome for bread wheat — a game-changing task for wheat breeding that’s been estimated to take four or five more years — may now just take another couple of years, following a milestone announced Wednesday. The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC), a team co-led by […]

Heavy rains threaten Australia’s east coast wheat crop – traders

Nov. 4, 2015 at 4:15 pm CST

By Colin Packham

Drought to shrivel Ukrainian wheat harvest in 2016

Nov. 2, 2015 at 1:26 pm CST

By Pavel Polityuk Reuters

Black Sea in it for the long haul

Oct. 29, 2015 at 1:36 pm CDT

By Karen Braun

Prairies see high-protein wheat crop, but few premiums

Oct. 16, 2015 at 8:11 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Gluten-free Cheerios recall not for Canada

Oct. 8, 2015 at 4:28 pm CDT

Gluten-free Cheerios or Honey Nut Cheerios in bilingual English-French packaging aren’t affected by a recent recall over undeclared wheat ingredients, the cereal’s manufacturer says. General Mills Canada said Wednesday that the products it sells in Canada aren’t included in the recall announced Tuesday in the U.S. General Mills recalled several […]

By Staff

Dawson: Ag exporters applaud historic TPP deal

Oct. 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm CDT

Export-oriented Canadian farmers are giving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement reached in Atlanta on Monday two thumbs up. The deal, which remains to be debated in Canada’s House of Commons and could take more than a year to be ratified by all 12 member countries, will see tariffs on Canadian […]

By Allan Dawson

Prairies’ harvest a tale of two wheat crops

Oct. 1, 2015 at 7:57 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Prairie farmers are in the final stages of harvesting the 2015 wheat crop, and while yields continue to beat earlier expectations, there’s a distinct quality difference between crops harvested early and those harvested late. “In our country, all of the grain was top grade, but anything that […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Producer groups lobby for TPP deal in Atlanta

Sep. 29, 2015 at 2:29 am CDT

Several Canadian grain and livestock commodity groups have representatives in Atlanta this week pressing for federal negotiators to keep Canada in play on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trade ministers from the 12 TPP countries — also including the U.S., Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei […]

By Staff

Managing risk basis: Demystifying the variables

Sep. 25, 2015 at 10:43 am CDT

Many farmers have a reasonably good handle on canola basis. When it comes to wheat basis, though, most producers are finding a very complex beast. That’s the clear-cut message from two of Manitoba’s leading commodity experts when asked for insight for producers managing basis risk. “Farmers understand canola,” said Mike […]

By Duncan Morrison