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Saskatchewan Accounts for Half of the Prairies Winter Wheat Acres
Jake Davidson - Winter Cereals Canada

Farmscape for December 16, 2016

The Executive Director of Winter Cereals Canada reports Saskatchewan has taken the lead in terms of the number of acres seeded to winter wheat.
Figures released by Statistics Canada show the numbers of acres of winter wheat planted across the prairies fell this fall.
Jake Davidson, the Executive Director of Winter Cereals Canada, says from about August 15, when the harvest gets, going conditions in Manitoba were wet, the canola crop did not come off and canola is the primary stubble crop for winter wheat so the winter wheat didn't get in, especially in western Manitoba.

Clip-Jake Davidson-Winter Cereals Canada:
Overall the prairies saw 535 thousand acres of winter wheat planted this year.
That's down from around 600 thousand.
That's primarily due to Manitoba.
Manitoba took quite a hit this year.
We've been running in the 200 thousand to 225 thousand and, because of our fall conditions, we're down to 140 thousand in Manitoba.
Saskatchewan however did much better.
They're up to 265 thousand, which is an improvement over where they've been running at around 220 thousand.
Alberta kind of holds its own every year in that 130 thousand acre bracket, because those are the places where they grow it and they put it in every year.
Alberta is pretty constant, Manitoba took a hit this year, Saskatchewan up and the prairies overall, not quite what we'd like to see.
We were hoping for 600 thousand total.
It's interesting, approximately 50 percent of the winter wheat grown in western Canada right now is coming out of Saskatchewan.

Davidson says, with the late fall, the crops that did get planted got off a good start.
He says there was a long vernalization period giving the crops a good opportunity to prepare for winter, now there's good snow cover and growers will be looking for that snow to remain in place.
For farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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