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Warburtons has selected and registered
a new Hard Red Spring Wheat variety,
AAC W1876, made by wheat breeders
Ron DePauw and Richard Cuthbert of the
Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research
Centre in Swift Current, SK. Meanwhile,
Canada Malting Company is increasing its
contracted acreage for Bentley malt, a sign
of its good yield and consistency.
Both varieties are being commercially
developed by Canterra Seeds. The Hard
Red Spring Wheat was tested by Warbur-
tons in both 2011 and 2012 and is similar
in nature to AC Carberry. It stood out
because of how well it worked in Warbur-
tons’ baking process, said Adam Dyck,
program manager at Warburtons Canada.
“It will take our quality up a notch,” he
said. “This will go into our normal grist.”
Warburtons sponsored the new wheat
through the registration process, and
then partnered with Canterra to make it
commercially viable for 2015.
“That’s allowed us to go from essentially
a few kilograms of seed to many, many
metric tonnes of product to be commer-
cialized for spring 2015 planting,” said
Brent Derkatch, director of operations and
business development at Canterra.
“It’s very exciting. It’s always nice when
we can respond to a market demand,”
Cuthbert said.
The demand will rise for barley, as well,
since Canada Malting Company has decid-
ed to grow its Bentley production to more
than 40,000 acres.
Bentley was developed in 1996, and
wound its way through the variety reg-
istration process before being registered
in 2008, said Patricia Juskiw, a barley
breeder who worked on Bentley for years.
Her work followed Manuel Cortez’s initial
crossings at the Lacombe Field Crop De-
velopment Centre.
“This is a made-in-Alberta success
story,” Juskiw said.
Bentley has good, consistent quality
and 10 to 15 per cent higher yield than the
traditional AC Metcalfe, Juskiw said. She
added that its lower enzyme levels are
attractive to craft brewers.
“When a company like Canada Malting
Company is willing to contract acres of a
new variety, that’s great news,” said Peter
Watts, managing director at the Cana-
dian Malting Barley Technical Centre
in Winnipeg, MB. “That helps with the
commercialization gap that we face with
new varieties in the industry.”
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