Winter Wheat

[agstar77]

Winter wheat early yield 50 with high Fus. Was a wonderful crop until the weather took it out. It seems Winter Wheat has been all down hill since it was introduced. Until Fus resistant varieties with better quality are found, it's dead meat.

[wmoebis]

Just a question.

Canada is not the only country that grows Winter Wheat but are we the only ones with Fus. problem?

What do other countries do? Do they have resistant WW all ready?

[craig]

Generally it is not the agronomic issues that are a
killer for winter wheat. Most varieties of wheat
grown in Western canada are susceptible to
fusarium if the weather isn't right at flowering.
Often winter wheat was early enough to head to
avoid those issues. The big issue is the poor track
record of the CWB in marketing the grain. If our
price spreads were comparable to the U.S. farmers
would have a real incentive to increase production
which would generate more revenue for the
industry. We have never had an indication that even
if we improved our quality that we would be paid
for it.

[redbaron]

So what about Ontario. High rain fall. High humidity. They consistently grow the crop. The acreage is holding or expanding and yields are excellent. Especially this year. They work with the fus issue and still are able to market it. At premium prices. Agstar remember the first year this disease made it's presence in the valley with hard wheat. We were told to burn the crop. Destroy it. Many did. Those that harvested the crop found out it had good value in the US market. Farmers and truckers were hauling thousands of bushels across the border. Then prosecuted later for selling grain that should have been burned in the fields. Please let's not be so negative on this crop. I feel someone is just trying to bury this crop for no reason at all. Let's harvest the rest and see where it all stacks up.

[shaney]

[URL="http://realagriculture.com/2010/03/31/wheat-school-trying-to-understand-fusarium/"]Trying to Understand Fusarium[/URL] in winter wheat in Ontario and how they try to deal with it. Ontario is a haven for fusarium but producers try to deal with it the best they can through agronomics and keeping their fingers crossed.

[northfarmer]

the stuff consistently outperforms hrs in the Peace for yield, we get high protein, great stuff for milling...we just screwed selling it through CWB, instead of the 6 they are getting in ON and US i get 4 for feed, but better than the PRO at 3 and change and a 1.66 initial............screw the cwb, free farmers now in the west!!!!

[dalek]

Rained out today, hoping to start tomorrow now. Neighbourhood seems to be averaging 75 bushels, grade 2, selling for $184/tonne today. Contracting for next year and 2012 at $215ish, may book some tomorrow for both.

[wmoebis]

Very interesting shaney.

One thing stood out to me in the clip is that it was called a subjective grading factor. However it is an objective factor and is very explicite in the grain grading guide as how to asses it.

The bigger problem, rather than colour blind graders as suggested, is the training of grain graders on assesment and interpretation of the guide. Only kernals with fibrous growth are concidered and you may use a 10X to confirm.

[craig]

Dalek
What kind of wheat Hard, soft ,red or white.

[dalek]

Soft red. I'd say almost 95 % of what's grown right around here is soft red, rest soft white.