{"id":7465,"date":"2011-07-14T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=7465"},"modified":"2011-07-14T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:56:53","slug":"news-and-views-end-of-kvd-to-benefit-livestock-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/news-and-views-end-of-kvd-to-benefit-livestock-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"News and Views &#8211; End of KVD to benefit livestock producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><strong><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz announced on February 11th the full removal of kernel visual distinguishability (KVD) as a variety registration screening criterion for all classes of Western Canadian wheat as of August 1, 2008. \u201cCanadian farmers need access to the best crop science and varieties to be successful and the Government of Canada is working to give producers every advantage,\u201d said Minister Ritz. \u201cMoving beyond KVD will allow Canadian farmers to harness the potential of new crop varieties tailored to livestock nutrition and biofuel production.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) announced in June 2006 that KVD would end for the minor classes of wheat by August 1, 2008. The recent announcement extends the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">removal of KVD in 2008 to all classes of Western Canadian wheat, including Canada<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Western Red Spring and Canada Western Amber Durum. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Removing the KVD requirements for wheat registration and segregation will allow for the development and registration of new high-yielding varieties of wheat suitable for other uses such as feed and biofuels, without requiring that they look different than milling wheats. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz announced on February 11th the full removal of kernel visual distinguishability (KVD) as a variety registration screening criterion for all classes of Western Canadian wheat as of August 1, 2008. \u201cCanadian farmers need access to the best crop science and varieties to be successful and the Government of Canada is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,930],"tags":[4685,8882,13816,10,2817,7829,6904,46,20007,269,15220,7828,19507,14784,79,17743,27282,14945,23437,1533,23609,20911,6129,934,2481,2285],"class_list":["post-7465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-production","tag-access","tag-al","tag-ass","tag-biofuel","tag-cla","tag-crop-science","tag-fee","tag-feed","tag-gh","tag-heat","tag-kernel-visual-distinguishability-2011","tag-kvd","tag-lang","tag-ness","tag-nutrition","tag-prod","tag-production","tag-removal-of","tag-science","tag-size","tag-spring","tag-t","tag-variety","tag-wheat","tag-work","tag-yield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7466,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions\/7466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}