Canada Wheat Board Says 2010-2011 Crop Will Shrink 17% After Too Much Rain

Western Canada will produce 15.6 million metric tons of wheat in the 2010-2011 crop year that starts tomorrow, down 17 percent from an estimated 18.8 million tons a year earlier as unusually wet weather prevented seeding in some areas and limited plant growth, the Canadian Wheat Board said today in a report.

To contact the reporter on this story: Tony Dreibus in Chicago at tdreibus@bloomberg.net

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