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Date Produced: Janury 2016
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THE CANADIAN GRAIN COMMISSION
has finalized its controversial decision
to reclassify a number of popular wheat
varieties.
The “modernization” of the country’s
wheat class system was heavily debated,
but as of Aug. 1, 2018, 25 Canada Western
Red Spring (CWRS) and four Canada
Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) varieties will
shift to the Canada Northern Hard Red
(CNHR) class. This new class will have
basic milling parameters and require qual-
ity data in order to be registered. The class
will be established Aug. 1, 2016, but will
not take full e ect for another two years.
In total, two classes were created,
CNHR and Canada Western Special
Purpose (CWSP). Included in the CNHR
change are well-known CWRS varieties,
such as Lillian, Harvest and Unity, while
AC Foremost is the biggest name being
moved from the CPSR class.
A temporary category, dubbed the
Canada Western Interim Wheat class,
will host new American varieties Faller,
Prosper and Elgin-ND until Aug. 1, 2016.
After that date, those varieties will also be
absorbed into the CNHR class.
The second, broader CWSP class will
have zero quality parameters and will also
take e ect Aug. 1, 2016. Its makeup will
consist of all varieties currently in the
Canada Western Feed and Canada West-
ern General Purpose wheat classes.
The initial Aug. 1, 2017, move date for
the 29 varieties was changed as a result
of strong feedback from industry stake-
holders who were concerned the aggres-
sive timeline wouldn’t give farmers and
seed distributors enough time to change
their plans for the coming growing
seasons.
