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Harvest Sample Program Yields Good Results

The results are in for the Canadian Grain Commission's Harvest Sample Program.
 
Kerri Pleskach is Program Manager of Analytical Services with the Grain Research Laboratory.
 
"This year we had a good response. There was about a 35 per cent return rate of the sample envelopes we sent out, which is a little higher than the past two years."
 
She notes over 80 per cent of the wheat samples were graded one or two.
 
Ninety per cent of canola was graded at number one.
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