Now wheat is catching attention

[macdon02]

Our negotiators are gonna have to give in on something to protect auto, I'm guessing they'll roll on us and the US will set our policy. If it comes to grain or dairy we are not priority.

[wmoebis]

Wouldn't we have to change the class names of all our wheat classes. How can we sell Canadian Western Red Speing when it may or may not be grown in western Canada.
Would you buy advertised California oranges that may have been grown in Mexico or China? Even if equal quality and may or may not be same price.

[Hopalong]

Held my tongue a few years ago when a senior grainco official defended brand Canada and grade and class regulation.
Thought at the time there might have been a measure of self interest in making it easier for his company to sell wheat in international markets.

[jamesb]

In the last few years there has been a lot of newer wheat varieties available to us that previously would have been pure feed varieties. Types like SY Rowyn that are grown in North Dakota interested me because of the yields that I was hearing south of me. We ended up growing Elgin-ND. When we went shopping the Elgin wheat with Brandon or Glenn wheat it was obvious that the specs in the "dark northern" wheats were not as valuable as the HRS wheats. Bear in mind this is wheat being delivered in Cerus at Northgate and being railed directly into the US for US or Mexico destinations.
This year had most of our wheat go to Northgate again with a demand for 13.5 protein HRS wheat being noticeable. If US DNS wheat comes into Canada they will find it wont pay to move it here as it doesn't pay for us either. No different with winter wheat. The specs on it hardly make it worth growing anymore other than spreading the workload.