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2025/26 canola production jumps nearly 13 per cent

AAFC issues August S/D report

There were sharp changes in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s estimates for the 2025/26 canola crop when it came to production and ending stocks. AAFC has now pegged canola output at 20.10 million tonnes, up 12.9 per cent from its July forecast. Also, the oilseed’s carryout was doubled from last month to now 2.20 million tonnes.




This image, captured using fluorescent microscopy, shows verticillium hyphae (in green) colonizing cells of root vascular tissue (in red).

Is canola on the path to withstand verticillium?

Seed companies are starting to tout canola with some verticillium stripe tolerance; meanwhile, researchers have a line on a genetic trait that might physically block infection

Seed companies are starting to tout some verticillium stripe tolerance in their new canola varieties. Meanwhile, researchers have a line on a genetic trait that might physically block infection.