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Western Producer: High-protein wheat expected to survive tariffs

January 20, 2025 — 

Those regions include Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan, which may suffer at a local level because the majority of wheat destined for the U.S. flows from those locations.

“Durum’s much the same,” he said.

“Nothing in the extreme west or Alberta goes that direction because the freight is not advantageous.”

Derek Brewin, an agricultural economics professor with the University of Manitoba, doubts the tariffs will have much impact on CWRS prices.

“I don’t think a small reduction in flows to the U.S. will hurt Canada as much as the tariffs will hurt canola oil, where the U.S. is their major buyer,” Brewin wrote in an email.

“There is a huge share of Canadian Hard Spring that flows out of Vancouver to final customers in Asia and the Middle East and west coast Latin America. If the U.S. adds a tariff on our wheat, it is more likely to drive up U.S. hard spring prices than have much effect on those trade flows or prices at the West Coast.”

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