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Volume 38, Number 7 | March 12, 2012 $4.25 PRACTICAL PRODUCTION TIPS FOR THE PRAIRIE FARMER www.grainews.ca Make the grade with winter wheat Putting winter wheat into your rotation? Start planning now. Here’s what buyers are looking for, and some tips for growing high-quality winter wheat BY ANGELA LOVELL “With the upcoming changes in wheat marketing I think it ust like spring wheat, winter remains to be seen how the mar- wheat products end up in keters of wheat are going to han- our bread, our animals or our dle what varieties are going to be cars. Each potential market acceptable for their target end use Jhas specific quality require- market,” says Pam de Rocquigny, ments, and in a freer marketing cereal specialist with Manitoba, environment for western Canadian Agriculture, Food and aRural wheat, those end-user needs will Initiatives (MAFRI). “Increased be increasingly important. communication between the pro- ducers and the companies that WHAT DO CUSTOMERS WANT? are now buying wheat will be important going forward.” “I think grain companies are One of the biggest barriers going to be reaching out to indi- for winter wheat milling varie- vidual purchasers and looking at ties, Canada Western Red Winter a more specific, characteristic- (CWRW), is the fact that they pro- based pricing regime,” says Curtis vide high grain yields but often at Sims, a winter wheat grower from the expense of protein levels. These MacGregor, Man, and a director can fall below the 11 per cent min- of Winter Cereals Manitoba Inc. imum set by the Canadian Wheat “I think, over time, there will be Board as the minimum milling PHOTO : FAYE BRIAN BERES , AAFC changes in terms of what you’ll quality for winter wheat. These trial plots were part of an extensive three-year winter wheat study recently completed at various AAFC be paid for a specific sample of research centres across the Prairies. wheat, based on its characteristics CHOOSING VARIETIES as determined by the end user, Some farmers are moving to other marketing environment, and we the red bran content of the wheat) just as producers do currently The dominant variety in varieties to try and achieve milling will end up with a fairer price for does not discourage consumers. with edible beans or sunflowers Manitoba has been CDC Falcon, quality. “It’s been problematic, and our winter wheat based on more These include specialty, artisan-type or oats. I think the industry is a CWRW variety scheduled to be farmers are starting to change win- than just protein.” breads and oriental noodles. going to be a lot more ambitious, moved to the Western General ter wheat varieties to try for higher Less commonly grown win- The ethanol industry prefers aggressive and energetic.” Purpose wheat class in August protein but are probably giving up ter wheat varieties are often more lower-protein grain, but requires a For now, farmers have to rely on 2014. Four other CWRW varie- yield,” says Sims. “I do see opportu- acceptable in niche or alternative higher starch content, and in partic- the Canadian Grain Commission’s ties, CDC Clair, CDC Harrier, CDC nities for a more streamlined market markets. CWRW wheat has excel- ular, soft kernel white winter wheat lists of varieties and specific quality Kestrel and CDC Raptor are being in the future, so maybe events will lent milling quality but is more suit- varieties such as CDC Ptarmigan. requirements each market sector moved to the General Purpose overtake the impact of these rigid ed to baking applications where a will accept. class in August 2013. structural changes on the actual darker coloured end product (due to » CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Publications Mail Agreement Number 40069240 In This Issue Wheat & Chaff .................. 2 Features ............................ 5 Crop Adviser’s Casebook 16 Columns ........................... 27 Machinery & Shop ............ 33 Cattleman’s Corner .......... 38 Long-term zero till Backhoe attachment FarmLife ............................ 43 study results adds versatility GARRY ROPCHAN PAGE 24 SCOTT GARVEY PAGE 34 NOTHING HITS HARDER. OR LASTS LONGER. Only PrePassTM with SoilActiveTM Technology offers superior pre-seed burndown control for up to 21 days, a 30-minute Rainfast Guarantee and full-service so you can accomplish more. Call 1.800.667.3652. PrePassTM and SoilActiveTM are trademarks of Dow AgroSciences LLC. 02/12-17722-02C 17722-02C PrePass 10.25X3_GN.indd 1 2/20/12 8:55 AM 2 / grainews.ca MARCH 12, 2012 Wheat & Chaff in the bin dry and aerated it for 10 was broken. It had been picked days afterwards, but in the fall Bin away by birds, and moisture was LEEANN No. 7 was warm to the touch. The getting in through the broken seal. MINOGUE canola had heated. And, some of Allison helped her client solve the Dennis’s barley had heated the year problem with some spray foam before, also in Bin No. 7.There was insulation. Since birds don’t like definitely something funny going spray foam, they didn’t bother on with this bin. with it again. The mystery was I received several emails and a fax solved, and “Dennis” could keep CORRECTION about this case — every one with a on using Bin No. 7. I’m still finding my feet here at different answer to this problem. Because it was so unusual for Grainews. Unfortunately, I suspect A grain bin sales representative me to receive so many different that by the time I get a good grip wrote in to suggest that the bin answers to a Casebook problem, I on this job, your actual editor, was closed tight after aeration, called Allison at work in Manning, Lyndsey Smith will probably be and then, “The grain did not get a Alberta to talk to her about it. She back from her maternity leave! chance to breathe as the weather said she’d received a few calls at As a new editor, I’m making outside changed.” the office too, and she was pleased occasional mistakes. Last month, A farmer said, “I have had trouble that her article had generated so I accidentally omitted a caption with direct sun on steel bins causing many responses. “I know they’re from one of Les Henry’s graphics. the bin to heat. It takes a while but reading it,” she said. There have been a few typos. And by mid-July or August, one side will As it turns out, Allison had a I’ve mislabelled a photo. start to heat. I have stacked round special interest in this particular Every month the Crop Advisor’s bales where the sun hits the hardest case. “Dennis,” the bin-owning Casebook includes a photo of and have good success.” client, is Allison’s father. And the crop advisor who describes a A reader from Carnduff, Sask., Allison was feeling a little guilty problem. In the February 6 issue, said “One of two things has hap- about the problem. She said, Elizabeth Simpson explained the pened. The first possibility is that “I’d talked him into keeping his mysterious case of some wild oats the bin still has a standard bin door canola through the summer, in the refused to die. Elizabeth Simpson on it. If this door has been bent or case he needed to blend it with “I’m going on vacation. The next 6 weeks will be sunny, is a sales agronomist at Richardson the caulking has dried up or been some poorer canola later. And cloudy, cold, windy and snowy.” Pioneer Ltd. in Lamont, Alta. damaged, the door will leak rain then it heated!” I put a photo of Elizabeth in with into the bin, causing high-moisture There was also something special the article, but accidentally labelled grain to build up at the floor under about Bin No. 7. Allison’s father pur- CONTACT US the photo “Allison Pierson.” Allison the door and eventually heat the chased most of his bins at auction is an area marketing representa- bin and rot the grain at the floor. sales, and his bin row is a bit of a tive at Richardson Pioneer Ltd. at “The second possibility is a prob- mismatched set. Bin No. 7 was origi- Write, Email or Fax Manning, Alta. My apologies to lem with the auger lid at the top nally a fumigation bin, fully sealed SUBSCRIPTION INQUIRIES: both Elizabeth and Allison. of the bin. Some bins allow snow with rubber foam gasket around the to blow past them either by a gap top and on all of the joints. The fact Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (CST) 1-800-665-0502 CASEBOOK at the lid when closed (by missing that this bin was originally different U.S. subscribers call 1-204-944-5568 seals between the lid assembly and from the others helps to explain or email: [email protected] As you know, we include the the corrugations of the bin roof why it heated while the rest in the Crop Advisor’s Casebook in every leaving gaps that snow and rain row did not. issue. Each week, there’s a new can blow past), or by the wind I don’t know if there’s a moral If you have story ideas, call us. You can write the article and we’d agronomic problem and the solu- blowing the lid open when the to this story. If there is, I suppose pay you, or we can write it. tion from the problem featured wind is in the right direction and it’s that farming is complicated. in the previous issue. (This issue’s strong enough.

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