Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
April 22, 2008
BASF Canada
congratulates Allan Sandau of Scandia, Alberta, for winning the
Grand Champion Wheat class at the 2008 Northlands Pedigreed Seed
Show with his sample of CDC Imagine CLEARFIELD® wheat seed.
“It makes a person feel good to know that the extra hard work,
the diligence you’re doing out in the field is paying off,” says
Allan Sandau, who operates a mixed livestock and pedigreed
alfalfa and cereal seed farm with his son Trevor. Sandau, who
has been growing pedigreed CDC Imagine seed for four years, says
CDC Imagine “is a nice variety, it doesn’t grow that tall, it
doesn’t lodge and the protein is very good.”
The Northlands Pedigreed Seed Show featured more than one
winning CDC Imagine seed entry this year. In the hard red spring
wheat class, CDC Imagine placed first and third with entries
submitted by Allan Sandau of Scandia, Alberta, and Sandeland Ag
of Lomond, Alberta, respectively. Sandau’s class-winning CDC
Imagine sample was also awarded top honours as the Grand
Champion wheat entry, which was selected from all winning
entries in four wheat classes: hard red spring; hard white
spring; Canadian prairie spring; and durum, winter, extra strong
wheats, rye and triticale. Thirteen hard red spring and 30
overall wheat seed entries competed in this year’s Pedigreed
Seed Show.
“I looked at information I have from some of the seed shows for
the last four or five years, and CDC Imagine has placed in the
top five a number of times. We’ve come pretty close before so I
was pleasantly surprised when it won,” says Pierre Hucl, spring
wheat breeder at the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop
Development Centre. “It’s a variety that’s well-suited to
Alberta and the dark brown soil zone of Saskatchewan, so the
fact that it won in Alberta makes sense.“
The CLEARFIELD System for Wheat is the only herbicide-tolerant
wheat system available in Canada, and allows growers to grow
clean wheat on any field in any rotation, even after barley. CDC
Imagine is the first variety developed for the CLEARFIELD wheat
system and is valued for its strong agronomics and high yield
potential – 103 to 105 per cent of AC Barrie. It’s a
medium-maturity variety that is characterized by excellent
lodging resistance, above-average protein and consistent milling
characteristics. CDC Imagine has been bred for tolerance to
ALTITUDE FX® and ADRENALIN® SC, custom-developed CLEARFIELD
wheat herbicides which provide broad-spectrum control of many
problem broadleaf weeds, including Group 2 resistant varieties,
and key grassy weeds such as volunteer barley and Group 1
resistant grasses. CLEARFIELD wheat is recognized worldwide as
non-genetically modified, so there are no marketing barriers and
no need for growers to segregate their crop.
Now in its 25th year, the Northlands Pedigreed Seed Show is
administered by a committee of volunteer pedigreed seed growers,
seed producers, representatives from seed and crop protection
companies, and regulatory personnel in the seed industry. Open
to pedigreed seed growers from Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, seed entered in this year’s show must have been from
2007 pedigreed seed production grown on the entrant’s farm, and
must be accompanied by an official germination crop certificate
number with its grade indicated. Wheat samples were judged on
cleanliness, appearance, seed size, colour, uniformity and
freedom from weed seeds.
CDC Imagine CLEARFIELD wheat seed is broadly available at
Viterra™ locations across the prairies for the 2008 growing
season.
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