Canada's 2010 Wheat Crop May Decline 15 Percent After Flooding on Prairies
Canadian farmers may produce 15 percent less wheat this year than in 2009 as flooding in Saskatchewan and Manitoba curbed seeding and crop development, Statistics Canada said in a report today.
Growers predict they’ll produce 22.7 million metric tons of wheat, down from 26.5 million last year, the government agency said today in Ottawa. The spring wheat crop is expected to drop 6.4 percent to 17 million tonnes, durum is forecast to fall 42 percent to 3.12 million tonnes and farmers say winter wheat output will fall 14 percent to 2.57 million tonnes.
Canola production will fall 8.1 percent from the prior year to 10.9 million tonnes, Statistics Canada said. Barley growers will produce 8.49 million tonnes versus 9.52 million a year earlier, a drop of 11 percent, the agency said.
The results are based on a survey of 14,400 farmers taken from July 26 to August 3, Statistics Canada said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Tony C. Dreibus in Chicago at Tdreibus@bloomberg.net.
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