Start the conversation on hard red winter wheat [Video]

Wheat harvest is roughly three months away, and the industry value chain is assessing its needs for hard red winter wheat.

Although no one defines the situation as critical, there are important markers to address.

In spite of solid acreages of a little more than a million acres in 2023 and roughly 850,000 acres planted last fall, most wheat crops were soft red winter wheat, with estimates of 750,000 acres now in the ground.

Why it matters: Any shortfall in Ontario hard red wheat acres means mill capacity will be filled by western Canadian growers, a missed opportunity for Ontario growers.

Seed and milling companies and grain merchandisers prefer to have more Ontario HRW, but there are grower concerns about not meeting the …