What Is Getting Cleaned at Seed Cleaning Plants?

[charliep]

China has mostly bought 3CWRS and depending on the crop year, lower protein 1/2 CWRS (when I was at the CWB, 3CWRS was the base grade in the contracts with premiums paid for higher quality/protein - actual grade shipped was at sellers option). Our competition for these sales is hard red winter out of the US.

I would think some of our newer CPS wheats (both red and white) will have a better fit into their noodle markets but I will have to get comments from Tom Halpenny. Another wheat that should have a fit (with market development) is Glenlea as a blending wheat to improve flour quality of some of there domestic wheats.

I was at Grain World when the CWB made this comment. It is a potential source of optimism but I would like to see actual comfirmation of some business before I get too excited. Given what likely will be a very small CWB export program next year (reduced acres with spring rains or poor yields with no rain), I suspect Canada would only be a small participant in this business but that has yet to be seen.

[countryguy]

I'm with Adam.CWRS is out the window!!I 'm sick of growing a breakeven crop and waiting in 3 hour lineups all winter to unload a worthless crop at the elevator.We are in an area that cannot grow high protein wheat so we are now going for volume in the feed wheat markets.My wheat acres are going into a high yielding American feed wheat.

[rain]

Not sure about the seed cleaning plant but here is my spin
Durum up 6%, HRSW up 9%, CPSR up 2%, Feed barley down 13%, Malt barley 2 row down 4%,
Summer fallow up 4% Peas down 5%

Red Deer South

rain

[cowman]

Summer fallow up 4%? How far south of Red Deer are you? I think I saw two small fields of summerfallow in the whole county of Red Deer last summer.

[rain]

I hear you but a % is a %.

I am of the opinion while crop insurance will sway seeding some what, producers from Letbridge to Calgary accross to Saskatoon and down to Regina will seed for drought tolerence not crop insurance. Write these numbers down and check them in a couple of months to see what happens.