Globe & Mail: From Bushel To Bread. Jay Schultz, Alberta.

The Globe and Mail plans to spend the next few months following a bushel of hard red spring wheat grown in Alberta until it is turned into bread by a foreign buyer. Here is a little bit of the start of the article. 
 
 
From Bushel To Bread: How Canada's Wheat Feeds The World. 
Globe and Mail 
by Eric Atkins 
 
Jay Schultz scoops up a handful of earth and lets it slide off his palm. The soil is dark brown and mixed with a rich mulch of husks, chaff and straw from last year’s harvest. 
 
But the field is wet and still cold from the long winter. A stiff wind is blowing across the wide open landscape of Wheatland County, Alta., and there are flakes of snow in the air. 
 
Planting will have to wait. 
 
Mr. Schultz’s family has been farming this land east of Calgary for generations, growing wheat and canola across 6,000 acres. But this is always an anxious time of year. The short growing season in Western Canada means the planting window is measured in days, not weeks. And everyone on the Schultz farm knows what’s at stake. 
 
“It’s now,” Mr. Schultz’s father, Ray, says as he sips coffee at the family farm house. “We should be seeding today.” 
 
 
Here is the link to the article on the Globe website. 
 
 
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/wheat-kings/article18731866/ 
 

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