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The canola value chain isn’t ready to give up yet on getting back into China.

Canola council not giving up on China market

More than a year after losing its biggest canola seed market the council is still working to restore normal exports

By Allan Dawson May 12, 2020

The Canola Council of Canada remains committed to regaining full access to the Chinese market for Canada’s canola seed. “Our priority is certainly to restore full trade and have all Canadian exporters included in that trade and we will keep working on this file until full trade is restored,” Jim Everson said during a webinar

Matt Kynoch, solutions supply specialist with Enns Brothers, demonstrates a worn spray nozzle at the June 22, 2017 canolaPalooza event in Portage la Prairie. The 2020 events have been cancelled due to the pandemic.

News

Canola council wants federal research to go forward

However, because of the pandemic, 2020 canolaPaloozas have been cancelled

By Allan Dawson May 11, 2020

The Canola Council of Canada believes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) can still take on high-priority research projects this growing season, including canola yield trials and research into yield-robbing canola diseases, despite COVID-19. However, this year’s canolaPalooza events in the three Prairie provinces showcasing the latest canola agronomy have been cancelled because of the virus,

The Chinese government continues to insist the issue of halting canola imports from Canada is a phytosanitary one.

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: One year later, still no traction on canola issue

By Gord Gilmour March 12, 2020

At times Canada’s trade situation brings to mind the one-hit-wonder of the 1970s, Stealers Wheel, and their song “Stuck in the Middle With You.” Instead of clowns to the left and jokers to the right, however, it’s more like canola bans to the east and indifference to the south. As the international geopolitical ground shifts

China continues to produce, import and consume plenty of canola. But for the past year very little has come from Canada.

News

One year after China canola ban, there is still no resolution

No easy resolution to China/Canada trade dispute, says Canola Council of Canada president

By Alexis Kienlen March 12, 2020

March 6, 2020 marked a sombre anniversary for Canada’s canola industry. It’s been a year since China banned the majority of imports of Canadian canola, and an end to the ban is nowhere in sight. “It’s a very frustrating situation for producers and the industry,” said Jim Everson, president of the Canola Council of Canada.

Farmit Manitoba, Oilseeds

The canola calamity

A hard harvest and tough storage season underline the need for a plan

By Spencer Myers February 26, 2020

Last fall’s “harvest from hell” was like a laundry list of what could go wrong. First there was a drought for much of the growing season reducing yields. Then as harvest approached, Mother Nature turned on the taps at just the wrong time and kept them on. Throw in a Thanksgiving snowstorm and you’ve got

News, Oilseeds

Canola council: Widen the scope on clubroot management

The Canola Council of Canada wants producers to layer their clubroot management strategies

By Alexis Stockford February 6, 2020

The Canola Council of Canada wants you to take a shotgun to your field — at least when it comes to clubroot. [AUDIO: ‘Are we taking clubroot seriously enough?’ – Justine Cornelsen and Dan Orchard] Council agronomists are urging farmers to avoid building a clubroot plan around a single silver bullet. Instead, agronomists Justine Cornelsen

News, Oilseeds

Canada working to diversify canola seed sales

This crop year exports to several countries have risen

By Allan Dawson November 12, 2019

Canada is working to diversify its canola seed sales, says Brian Innes, the Canola Council of Canada’s vice-president of public affairs. “As an industry we are doing what we can to diversify,” Innes said in an interview from Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 28 where Canada and China had their first face-to-face meeting over the canola dispute.

Crops, News, Oilseeds

New tool on the way for canola growers safeguards against blackleg

Saltro is a new seed treatment to control blackleg at the seedling stage expected to be available for the 2021 growing season

By Allan Dawson November 4, 2019

A new fungicide to protect canola seedlings from blackleg, a major yield-robbing disease, could be available as a seed treatment for the 2021 growing season. It’s called Saltro and was developed by Syngenta. “Syngenta anticipates registration in time to make it available for use in the 2021 growing season,” Sarah Osborne, company marketing operations manager,

New shatter-resistant canola varieties may hold the key to parking your swather.

Crops, News

Pod shatter reduction canola sounds swathing’s death knell

Sixty per cent of Manitoba’s canola acres this year have pod shatter reduction technology, even though the innovation has only been available since 2014

By Allan Dawson October 18, 2019

Western Canadian farmers have adopted pod shatter reduction canola faster than expected — and industry officials predict the innovation, which is as much about harvest flexibility as straight cutting, will soon be on almost every acre. “InVigor (canola from BASF), which is on more than half of the acres in Western Canada, this year over

Crops

EU can pick up canola market slack

By Allan Dawson September 3, 2019

Canada could export up to two million tonnes of canola seed to the European Union (EU) this crop year, more than doubling normal shipments, but Canadian canola farmers must first be certified as ‘sustainable.’ For most Canadian farmers the process won’t be difficult. That’s the message the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) delivered during a

VIDEO: Cereal drought tolerant ratings hard to compile

Prairie wheat bids fall with U.S. futures

British company Antler Bio brings epigenetics to dairy farms

Daily Network News

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Prairie wheat bids fall with U.S. futures

British company Antler Bio brings epigenetics to dairy farms

Tag Archives Canola Council of Canada — page 3

Canola council not giving up on China market

Canola council wants federal research to go forward

Editor’s Take: One year later, still no traction on canola issue

One year after China canola ban, there is still no resolution

The canola calamity

Canola council: Widen the scope on clubroot management

Canada working to diversify canola seed sales

New tool on the way for canola growers safeguards against blackleg

Pod shatter reduction canola sounds swathing’s death knell

EU can pick up canola market slack

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