Stocks are tight and the quality of this year’s Prairie
harvest is the poorest on record, he told those attending the Cereals of North
America conference in Winnipeg.
Only four per cent of the Canadian crop is grading as
number one and only 19 per cent is grading number two.
Thirty-seven per cent is grading, 25 per cent number
four and 14 per cent number five, Burnett said.
Plenty of rain in Europe also impacted the quality or
the durum wheat harvest in France, Italy and Greece.
Canadian durum is world famous as the best for making
pasta.
