Effective August 1, 2008 kernel visual distinguishability or KVD will be removed as a registration criterion for all eight western Canadian classes of wheat.

Currently the visual characteristics of western Canadian wheat must meet the requirements of the KVD test before it can be registered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for production and handling.  The elimination of the KVD inspection will allow higher yielding grain varieties to be harvested.

Neil Ketilson, General Manager of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board said that the new grain registration changes provide a competitive advantage because "if you can grow 75 bushels of wheat compared to the old varieties at 50, that just means that the grain farmers are better off and we have more feed grain available to us which should be cheaper for the livestock industry but also enable to the grain farmers to make more money so it's a win win for both."

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