Insights and Stories on Winter Wheat

State of Prairie winter wheat still unknown

Mar. 12, 2015 at 7:49 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Snow cover is rapidly disappearing across Western Canada, but it will still be a few weeks until the extent of any damage to winter wheat across the Prairies is fully known. “It’s still wait-and-see,” said analyst Bruce Burnett of Winnipeg grain firm CWB. The crop won’t start […]

U.S. grains: Wheat rises to one-week high on dry U.S. Plains

Mar. 11, 2015 at 5:22 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Arctic blast hits U.S. Midwest, some wheat at risk of winterkill

Feb. 17, 2015 at 11:25 am CST

By Christine Stebbins

Mild weather poses risks for Prairie winter wheat

Jan. 26, 2015 at 6:31 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Arctic air surge puts U.S. SRW wheat at risk of winterkill

Jan. 5, 2015 at 3:57 pm CST

By Christine Stebbins

Recent mild spell seen hurting Prairie winter wheat

Dec. 17, 2014 at 7:13 pm CST

CNS Canada — Recent milder weather seen in Western Canada was unfavourable for winter wheat crops and has left the crops more vulnerable to winterkill. “The major impact is that it melted some of the snow cover that the winter wheat had, and in a lot of cases now some […]

By Terryn Shiells

Prairies’ winter wheat looks good heading into dormancy

Nov. 7, 2014 at 2:15 pm CST

CNS Canada — There weren’t a lot of acres planted to winter wheat in Western Canada this fall due to the late harvest of many other crops — but what was seeded looks good as it heads into dormancy. “The fields that are there look good, just we have no […]