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April 15, 2013 Features
Six row malting barley
April 15, 2013 Features
What malt buyers want
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Blue and purple wheat

Lisa Guenther

Published: April 15, 2013

Features

Some Prairie farmers are already growing purple wheat under contract.  This could be the next new thing for your farm

Researchers are developing specialty wheat varieties which could eventually bring farmers higher premiums.

Blue and purple?

Lisa Guenther is the senior editor of magazines at Glacier FarmMedia, and the editor of Canadian Cattlemen. She previously worked as a field editor for Grainews and Country Guide. Lisa grew up on a cow-calf operation in northwestern Saskatchewan and still lives in the same community. She holds a graduate degree in professional communications from Royal Roads University and an undergraduate degree in education from the University of Alberta. She also writes fiction in her spare time and has had two novels published by NeWest Press in Edmonton.