Last year’s canola crop was high quality with a larger-than-normal oil content, according to a recently released report from the Canadian Grain Commission.
Of the 1,749 samples analyzed, 85.0 per cent graded No. 1, which compares with 75.3 per cent in 2010. The highest-quality crops were in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Oil content was pegged at 45.2 per cent, a sharp increase from 44.3 per cent the previous year and the five-year mean average of 44.2 per cent. Protein content was 19.6 per cent, versus 20.1 per cent in 2010 and the five-year average of 20.8 per cent.
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The commission also found more than 98 per cent of flax graded No. 1 (versus 97.5 per cent in 2010), oil content was 45.9 per cent (44.9 per cent in 2010 and 45.3 over the previous 10 years) and protein was 21.9 per cent (21.1 per cent in 2010 but below the 10-year average of 23.1 per cent).
Top grade oriental, brown and yellow mustard in 2011 had fixed oil content of 43.5 per cent, 38.8 per cent and 31.6 per cent respectively, which compares to the 10-year averages (2001-10) of 41.7 per cent, 39.4 per cent and 30.1 per cent. Crude protein for the top grade oriental, brown and yellow mustard was 25.2 per cent, 26.9 per cent and 30.6 per cent compared to the 10-year averages of 26.6 per cent, 26.7 per cent and 32.3 per cent, respectively.
Europe to import even more biodiesel —Oil World
hamburg / reuters Europe is likely to import even more biodiesel in coming months at the expense of its domestic green fuel producers, according to Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World.
“The Spanish biodiesel industry is largely idle at the moment as it is unable to compete with imported biodiesel,” Oil World said. “As a result, exports of Argentine biodiesel to Spain remained at a high level so far in 2012.”
EU biodiesel producers warned last November that more production plants could close because of rising imports. High rapeseed prices following poor 2011 rapeseed crops in Europe are making rapeseed oil, the key European raw material for biodiesel, the most expensive of the mainstream vegetable oils in the EU.
