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Winter wheat acres in Western Canada have fallen by half over the last five years.
According to Statistics Canada, just over 1.3 million acres of winter wheat were seeded in the fall of 2011, while only 635 thousand acres were planted in the fall of 2015 (see the chart in article).
Canola harvest timing and weather conditions leading into early September certainly factor into how many winter wheat acres are seeded from one year to the next, but in the long-term, there’s also work to be done in the area of market development and research, says the winter wheat technical specialist at the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) in Winnipeg.
