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Market access and boosting canola production remain top priorities, says the Canola Council of Canada

Canola council’s new priorities aim to be more efficient, effective

Changes are coming to promotion, agronomy and funding

By Allan Dawson December 13, 2018

The Canola Council of Canada has slashed its budget by 40 per cent for the upcoming year. The organization is revamping its priorities to be more effective and efficient in growing Canadian canola markets and production. The changes, which include a shift in canola promotion, the council’s role in agronomy and funding, received unanimous support

News, Oilseeds

Canola council’s new priorities aimed at efficiency, effectiveness

Market access and production still top the list, while changes are coming to promotion, agronomy and funding

By Allan Dawson December 11, 2018

The Canola Council of Canada has slashed its budget by 40 per cent for the upcoming year. The organization is revamping its priorities to be more effective and efficient in growing Canadian canola markets and production. The changes, which include a shift in canola promotion, the council’s role in agronomy and funding, received unanimous support

News, Oilseeds

Canola meal boosts milk performance in dairy cattle trials

The trial ration is competitive or even cheaper than the current diet

By MarketsFarm Team November 20, 2018

Feeding trials from Wisconsin dairies showed that cows produced more litres of milk per day with canola meal in their feed rations. On-farm trials carried out at two dairies by the Canola Council of Canada and GPS Dairy Consulting, a group of independent dairy nutritionists, replaced animal protein and high-bypass soybean meal with canola meal

Hand over wheat field in early summer evening.

News

Canada’s grain industry welcomes USMCA

The United States is an important market for Canadian grains and oilseeds

By Allan Dawson October 12, 2018

Canada’s grain sector has nothing but praise for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The trilateral deal reached Sept. 30 not only continues to give Canadian grain access to markets in the United States and Mexico, but it will also modernize areas covered under the former North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), including chapters on biotechnology

Remaining canola fields were weighed down by inches of snow after September took a chilly turn Sept. 22.

Crops, Local news

Remaining canola promises tough harvest

September’s sudden snowfall should be treated like a frost if crops were immature and a rain event if pods were ready to come off the field, according to the Canola Council of Canada

By Alexis Stockford October 5, 2018

Canola growers are casting more than one mournful look to the field after an unseasonable snow dump and chilly rain stopped harvest in its tracks. Manitoba’s weather took a turn to the cold and wet in the last weeks of September, with many regions reporting rain, temperatures well below 10 C and, in a stark

News

Whither Canada?

Some say Canada's good reputation as a food producer fizzled

By Allan Dawson September 27, 2018

Is Canada still the producer of the world’s best food products, or is it time to rebrand Canada? That’s the point Camrose, Alta. farmer Gerald Pilger made in a recent column in Country Guide where he claimed the country’s reputation has fizzled in recent years. The purpose of the column was to get farmers to

Crops

A crop-by-crop rundown on sclerotinia control

Variety and fungicide are key for control, but for sunflowers there’s only one option — rotation

By Angela Lovell September 12, 2018

The good news is the hot, dry summer made sclerotinia somewhat scarce in canola fields this summer, but there was a minor downside — there weren’t many examples to show farmers attending a sclerotinia control session at this year’s Crops-A-Palooza, even in the inoculated demonstration plots at the Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre (CMCDC) here. But

Understand that straight cutting canola will mean taking a look at how the entire combine operates.

Crops, Equipment, Oilseeds

Different harvest, different combine settings

Those combine settings may not be doing you any favours if you’re aiming for straight cut and they’re still set to swath

By Alexis Stockford September 7, 2018

First-time canola straight cutters might want to take another look at their combine settings. “When we’re comparing picking up a windrow to straight cutting, we, again, want to kind of treat this like a different crop,” Angela Brackenreed of the Canola Council of Canada stressed during a recent Manitoba Agriculture webinar. “The same combine setting

Crop Report, Crops, Weather

Sub-zero temperatures descend on Manitoba

Special Crop Report due to early fall frost on Sept. 5

By Manitoba Agriculture September 5, 2018

Sub-zero temperatures were recorded in Southwest, Northwest, Central and Interlake stations overnight. Sub-zero temperature and duration of temperature are important factors to consider for their effect on immature crops. Where frost occurred, crops susceptible at present maturity are canola, soybean and silage corn. Producers are cautioned that frost that occurred on greenfeed and corn can

It’s ok to start swathing after a frost if most or all of your canola seed is already mature.

Local news, Oilseeds, Weather

Frost hits canola. Do I swath?

Consider these scenarios in the event of a frost on your canola

By Canola Watch September 4, 2018

With fall coming on strong and frost risk climbing, many canola growers are wondering what to do with standing canola. The Canola Council of Canada’s CanolaWatch has the following recommendations for before and after a frost. For canola that you’ll be swathing If frost is forecast, should you swath canola now or leave it standing?

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower

ICE Weekly: Trade progress, new data threaten to break canola’s price range

CBOT Weekly: Trade awaits USDA S/D report

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