Canadian Wheat Board forecasts second smallest planted wheat acreage in 40 years.
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Farm and Ranch June 16, 2011 At an annual grain industry briefing this week the Canadian Wheat Board’s director of weather and market analysis, Bruce Burnett, said excessive moisture this spring means Canada will likely see the second smallest planted acreage of wheat since 1971. Last year was the smallest.
Burnett: “Obviously it is the second year of above normal spring rainfall in a concentrated region. Some of the areas in southeastern Saskatchewan, southwestern Manitoba have less than ten percent of the crop planted. That crop that is planted is suffering from excess moisture issues as well. So there are concerns there. Our unseeded area is likely to be between six and eight million acres this year. Our current estimate, and this is the best estimate at this point in time, is about 6.5 million acres of unseeded land.”
Burnett said weather over the next two weeks will be critical if there is any hope of lifting expectations for seeding. He also noted that on the whole the Prairie crop has been seeded much later than last year, which is raising concerns about the potential for frost damage this fall from a late harvest. Burnett also said northern Canadian wheat areas have actually been on the dry side and are in need of rain.
Burnett put wheat acreage this year at 20.3 million acres. The preliminary wheat production estimate is 20.3 million metric tons which includes 3.8 million of durum. Last week USDA forecast Canadian wheat product at 25 million metric tons.
I’m Bob Hoff and that’s the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on Northwest Aginfo Net.
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Since we last talked with northwest wheat grower Kirk Moser warmer weather has allowed him to complete herbicide spraying of his winter wheat and he is now spraying his spring wheat. Kirk, like many growers this year the threat of stripe rust had you including a fungicide with your herbicide.
Moser: “All the grain has been getting fungicide application at herbicide timing and then we are starting to see some of the fields will be needing a second round at this point.”
Can you tell me what fungicide you used?
Moser: “We went with Tilt and Quilt. We split some of the fields just to get a look at what the different fungicides were doing, but those were our main to products.”
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