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Manitoba growers are prepared to try advanced 4R techniques but wary of risks.
Crops, Farmit Manitoba

Farmers open to new 4R practices; concerned about risks

About half of western Canadian wheat and canola acres are already officially managed with 4R

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Manitoba farmers say they are open to trying new 4R techniques and building upon current practices but have an eye on cost and risks. It’s important to be challenged by the question, “what more can we do to reduce our emissions… while running a farm properly?” said Dean Harder, who farms near Morris. During this
FCL’s Co-op Fertilizer Terminal at Brandon. (Photo courtesy Federated Co-operatives Ltd.)
Crops

Canada can cut fertilizer emissions 14 per cent by 2030, industry groups say

Report touts use of 4R practices

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Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from applying nitrogen fertilizer by 14 per cent by 2030 through adoption of more sustainable farm practices and new technology, without any overall reduction in fertilizer use, agriculture industry groups said on Wednesday. Such reductions of nitrous oxide from 2020 levels would fall well
“Growers may have reasons to cut early based on frost risk and logistics, but where possible, we’d like to see the target shift to later cutting.” – Shawn Senko.
Crops, Oilseeds

Cut canola later for higher yield

Canola Council launches campaign to persuade farmers of the benefits of patience

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The Canola Council of Canada is encouraging farmers to hold off on harvesting canola to improve yield. Research in the early 2000s showed that canola swathed at 60-70 per cent seed colour change (SCC) yielded 11 per cent more than fields swathed at 30-40 per cent. That research was reinforced in 2013, when the Indian
The Hula Hoop method provides a per-square-foot plant count.
Crops, Oilseeds

Crowdsourcing canola counts

Results coming in from first year of the Canola Council of Canada’s ‘Canola Counts’ survey

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Self-improvement is tricky without looking outward for perspective. A program launched last year by the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) aims to give canola growers that perspective on a massive scale. The CCC’s ‘Canola Counts’ survey is now into its second year and the data coming in is already providing good insights for agronomists, says
In 2020, several canola-centric groups petitioned the EPA to include canola oil on its approved list of possible biofuels.
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U.S. EPA proposes nod to canola-based biofuel

The April 18 proposal could open up new market opportunities for the oilseed

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Canadian canola may have a bite at the U.S. biofuel market after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed in mid-April that canola oil-derived renewable diesel, jet fuel and other biofuels qualify as “advanced biofuels” under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. The EPA determined that “greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from renewable diesel, jet fuel and other fuels
“The long-term demand signal for canola is strong.” – Jim Everson.
News, Oilseeds

Canola industry bullish on demand, nervous about emission targets

Greenhouse gas emission targets bring both potential boon and hardship to Canadian canola growers

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Canadian farmers will need to grow a lot more canola to meet global demand, with emission reduction goals both a key driver and central concern, said agriculture leaders during the Canola Council of Canada’s (CCC) “Canola Week” conference on November 30. “The long-term demand signal for canola is strong,” said CCC president Jim Everson. Why
Two years later a new study has put a very large price tag on to China’s canola ban.
News, Oilseeds

The canola price puzzle

Two years into China’s ban on Canadian canola, a new report pegs the true cost to farmers at as much as $1.3 billion

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Many brush off the effect of China’s de facto ban on Canadian canola, pointing to record prices and huge global exports. But that’s a mistake, according to a new study commissioned by the Canola Council of Canada. LeftField Commodity Research delved a bit deeper for the council and found that between March 6, 2019 and
Canola Council of Canada’s Market Access Plan
News, Oilseeds

Canola Council of Canada’s Market Access Plan

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Two years after China began restricting imports of Canadian canola seed there are no signs normal sales will resume any time soon. “Unfortunately there isn’t any real change to report on,” Brian Innes, the Canola Council of Canada’s (CCC) vice-president of public affairs, said in an interview March 10. And while there seems to be

Carbon tax relief for grain dryer fuels is slowly inching its way through Ottawa.
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Carbon tax rebate on grain-drying fuels coming

MP Jim Carr, special representative for the Prairies, reiterated Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau’s pledge

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Farmers can expect a rebate on carbon taxes paid on fuels used to dry grain, Jim Carr, the federal government’s special representative for the Prairies, told the Canadian Crops (Virtual) Convention March 2. However, he didn’t provide any details. “There is promising news on this front,” Carr told the meeting hosted by the Canola Council
Blackleg and verticillium stripe are sometimes even found in the same plant. 
Crops, Oilseeds

Canola foes the same — but different

Blackleg and verticillium stripe can be confusingly similar

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Is it verticillium stripe or is it blackleg? That’s a question canola growers may find themselves asking more in the future, as verticillium stripe (VS) gains a stronger foothold on North American farms, a recent webinar hosted by the Prairie provinces’ canola associations heard. It was first discovered in Manitoba in 2014 and is caused

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