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Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove Farm is a National Historic Site of Canada.Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove Farm was a farm owned and operated by agronomist Seager Wheeler (1868–1961) "Wheat King of the Prairies" or "The Wheat Wizard of Rosthern" who developed dry land farming techniques as well as fruit and wheat strains which could grow in a short prairie growing season followed by harsh winters. [1]
Seager Wheeler, MBE (1868 – December 15, 1961) was a Canadian agronomist. Wheeler produced viable economic wheat and fruit strains for a short prairie growing season with harsh winters. Known as the "Wheat King of the prairies" or "The Wheat Wizard of Rosthern" [1] he owned and operated the Seager Wheeler's Maple Grove Farm.
Support agencies and services such as storage, railways, warehouses, stores, banking institutions all affect domestic trade. Trade of wheat from the Canada's prairies was monitored by the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) prior to the privatization and sale of the CWB to foreign interests in 2015. Canada's depression of 1882–1897 brought a low of ...
In 1923 Canada supplied 53.3% of British grain imports and was the world's largest wheat exporter. Britain was still the country's major wheat export market well into the 1960s. The prairies became one of the world's most monocultural landscapes, wheat being 80% or 90% of all the crop in many areas.
The following are 33 varieties of Canadian wheat listed by the year they were recognized formally, their parentage, where they were developed and any other remarks. [2] [3] Red Fife, [4] 1885. The seed was sent to David Fife in Peterborough, Ontario, taken from a ship in the Glasgow port originating from Danzig. A friend of his sent him seed ...
Winter wheat production for Oklahoma is forecast at 98.8 million bushels, up 44% from last year, according to Oklahoma Farm Report. Yield is expected to average 38 bushels per acre, up 10 bushels ...
A wheat pool is a co-operative that markets grain (mostly wheat) on behalf of its farmer-members. In Canada in 1923 and 1924, three wheat pools were created. They were farmer-owned co-operatives , created to break the power of the large for-profit corporations, that had dominated the grain trade in Western Canada since the late 19th Century ...
The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool was a grain handling, agri-food processing and marketing company based in Regina, Saskatchewan.The Pool created a network of marketing alliances in North America and internationally which made it the largest agricultural grain handling operation in the province of Saskatchewan.