Organization in Canada, China, sign memorandum

Canola Council of Canada touts benefits of canola oil and meal during trade mission to China

The Canola Council of Canada is celebrating a new memorandum of understanding after wrapping up a trade mission to China. Speaking from Beijing, canola council president Jim Everson emphasized the importance of the Chinese market for Canadian canola producers and processors. “We are just at the end of what we think is a very successful

Blooming rapeseed field at sunset

Canola prices likely capped by ample supplies

StatsCan has left canola projections unchanged in their 
most recent supply/demand tables

ICE Canada canola prices bounced around within a wide range during the week ended Nov. 17, but finished on a firmer note as a rally in Chicago Board of Trade soybeans gave canola a boost. Any strength was largely tied to chart-based speculative buying, with no real fresh fundamental news as far as canola is


USDA report surprises oilseed market

USDA report surprises oilseed market

Traders were expecting a lower yield number and when they didn’t get it, they reacted

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts may have finally topped out after the USDA’s monthly supply-and-demand report put the entire oilseed sector under pressure. Canola futures began climbing back in the early part of September, eventually rising above the $520-per-tonne mark. However, that changed on Thursday, November 9, when the USDA left its prediction for soybean

The Manitoba Canola Growers Association thinks an opportunity could exist for canola producers to sell their product into the biodiesel market.

Carbon tax could translate into more demand for canola

“Nobody like taxes… but there is also going to be some opportunities,” as a result of Manitoba’s climate and green plan, Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) president Chuck Fossay told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ advisory council Nov. 2. While the plan includes a flat $25-a-tonne carbon tax starting sometime next year, it also says if


Canola traders are fixed on forecasts for a record crop

Canola traders are fixed on forecasts for a record crop

Minneapolis wheat suggests protein will be in short supply

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts trended higher for the past two weeks, despite seasonal harvest pressure, although the bigger picture remains sideways and rangebound. The November contract briefly traded above the 200-day moving average of $497 per tonne on Sept. 22, on the back of some fund buying triggered by a rally in Chicago soybeans.

Different varieties of blackleg resistance are put on display during Canolapalooza June 22 in Portage la Prairie.

Gene labelling tools hope to better target blackleg

Researchers say better gene classification will help match blackleg-resistant canola varieties to races of the fungus found in the field. AAFC Saskatoon has unveiled tools to quickly identify avirulence proteins (which facilitate plant infection) in submitted samples, attendees of Canolapalooza heard June 21 in Portage la Prairie. Harunur Rashid, graduate student with the University of


BrettYoung’s Eric Gregory and (l to r) DL Seeds’ Kevin McCallum and Sakaria Liban in the DL Seeds screening greenhouse.

Homegrown canola breeder sees opportunities and challenges

BrettYoung and DL Seeds say they’ll continue to be a major player in canola breeding in Western Canada

A Manitoba-based canola-breeding consortium says the current wave of lifescience mergers isn’t necessarily bad news for them. Winnipeg’s BrettYoung and Morden’s DL Seeds, a joint venture of two of the largest European oilseed rape-breeding companies, have been working together for a number of years to bring canola hybrids to market. They’ve seen their market share

Pratisara Bajracharya, field crop pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development spoke on clubroot at the Dauphin Agriculture Society’s Farm Outlook 2016 held on March 10.

Careful management key to keeping clubroot level low in province

Experts call for soil testing, scouting and diligent rotations to keep clubroot at low levels

Manitoba canola growers aren’t facing the full mischievousness of clubroot — yet. The soil-borne disease is a major issue for farmers in other locales, where it limits cropping options, stunts plants and hampers yield. Provincial specialists say they hope it remains a mild problem here, and scouting and diligent crop rotation will be the key


A new multigenic clubroot-resistant variety will be a boon for some canola growers, 
but it’s not ‘a saviour,’ says agronomist Dan Orchard.

New variety a milestone in the battle against clubroot

New canola variety has two resistant genes — but clubroot strains are quickly multiplying

A new canola variety resistant to multiple strains of clubroot will hit the market in time for spring seeding. But the new variety from Crop Production Services will only be available in limited quantities and a clubroot expert says growers can’t expect it to be “a saviour.” CPS Canada says the variety, Proven Seed PV

Regrowth in swaths cannot be sprayed.

Canola regrowth under swaths can’t be sprayed

Rain and delayed harvest have caused some cut canola plants to regrow. This regrowth coming up through swaths can make for increased green matter going through the combine. This regrowth cannot be sprayed. Once canola is cut, no product can be applied. Pre-harvest intervals are closed for all products, and spraying swaths mean residues will