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Editorial: We might need 100-bushel canola

By John Morriss August 10, 2015

The Canola 100 Agri-Prize for the first to achieve 100-bushel canola makes for an interesting challenge. Despite a favourable lingering PR image as the “Cinderella crop,” a look at the numbers suggests canola is showing signs of middle age. A few patches in a good growing year might even approach 80 to 90 bushels now,

Our History

Ag Canada seeds officer concerned of blackleg spread in canola

Our History: February 1981

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 17, 2015

This ad from Feb. 5, 1981 reminds us that canola is no longer called rapeseed, Furadan is no longer registered and Chemagro no longer exists — it later became part of Bayer. That week we reported that an Agriculture Canada seeds officer was concerned that Manitoba farmers purchasing rapeseed from Saskatchewan risked spreading “a sclerotinia-type

News, Oilseeds

FDA’s trans fat ban could boost demand for non-soybean oils

By Brandon Logan November 14, 2013

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement Nov. 7 that it plans to phase out the use of trans fat in processed foods could cause demand for soyoil to drop in coming years, opening the door for other edible oil markets. “The announcement was really a surprise,” Dave Lehman, managing director of commodity research

News, Oilseeds

Agriculture Hall of Fame

Charles John Froebe was a significant force behind the development of cash advance programs

July 18, 2013

There were six Manitoban’s inducted to the Manitoba Agricultural Hall  of Fame July 10. The Co-operator will publish the inductee profiles over the next six weeks.

Charlie Froebe was born at Carman, Man., Nov. 27, 1941. He grew up on the family farm in the Homewood district where he attended grade school and was a member of the Manitoba Sugar Beet 4-H Club. His secondary education was at St. John’s Ravenscourt in Winnipeg and Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois. He

Fencing that once marked pasture land now butts up against the shore of East Shoal Lake. Photos: Shannon VanRaes

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

Milking the benefits of canola meal

By Allan Dawson June 19, 2013

The Chinese have 7.2 million reasons to switch their dairy cows to canola meal from other protein rations. That’s how many more litres of milk their 12 million cows would produce every day based on a year-long joint Sino-Canadian study conducted by Chinese academics, in co-operation with China’s five largest dairy companies. “Canola meal has

Cereals, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Grain Market Report

June 19, 2013

The path of least resistance for canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform remained to the downside during the week ended June 14. Declines were influenced by the perception that canola seeding was now complete and that the crop was off to a generally good start, development-wise. Downward price action was augmented by

Beef cattle, Crops, Hogs, Oilseeds

Canada wins China canola access, sees Russia meat barriers

By Rod Nickel April 26, 2013

Canada has not ruled out WTO action against Russia for banning meat  from Canadian plants over ractopamine

China has softened its three-year-old import restrictions on Canadian canola, while Russia is set to erect barriers to some of Canada’s biggest meat-packing plants, Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said April 16. China approved one additional oilseed-crushing plant, the 600,000-tonne CNOOC-Biolux plant in Nantong, Jiangsu province, to accept shipments of Canadian canola seed, a crop

Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion, Our History

Our History: Canola was a ‘calculated’ risk

By J.k. Daun April 18, 2013

It was about three dozen years ago that my friends and colleagues at the then Rapeseed Association of Canada invited me over to discuss the specifications and definition for a new crop. When I arrived, Al Earl, the executive director of the association told me that the board had decided to name the new double-zero-type

Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Unexpected stocks of U.S. soybeans pressure canola

By Dwayne Klassen April 10, 2013

Canola values on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform moved lower during the week ended April 5, with declines a function of chart-related speculative liquidation orders as well as the downward price action experienced in the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean complex. The continued declines seen in Malaysian palm oil and European rapeseed futures

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

AAFC sees more wheat, less canola planted

April 9, 2013

Canadian farmers will plant more wheat and a bit less canola in 2013, Canada’s Agriculture Department said in its latest planting forecast, which offered a slightly reduced wheat-planting estimate from the previous month. Attractive prices and a modest shift away from canola and other crops should entice farmers into planting more wheat, according to the

Daily Network News

Moroccan fertilizer maker OCP expects output to drop 30 per cent in Q2, sources say

Feed Grain Weekly: Demand rises despite war uncertainty

How farmers can manage stress, anxiety during spring seeding

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