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Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

Eat At Home For Improved Nutrition And Cost Savings

Fewer than half of Canadians eat more than one cooked meal per day and 33 per cent of Canadians eat take-out at least once per week, according to research done by the Canadian Council of Food and Nutrition and Dietitians of Canada. Our tendency to reach for convenience foods either in the frozen food section
Crops, Oilseeds

Canola Crop Seen Up If Water Holds Back

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Canada’s farmers will likely harvest more canola this year to cash in on high prices, but flooding is possible in Saskatchewan and will be a key factor, the head of the main canola industry group said Jan. 18. Canola, soybean and rapeseed prices are trading around two-to three-year highs, giving farmers ample reason to seed
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

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If you haven’t started nibbling yet, it won’t be long before Christmas cookies will be here, there, everywhere and completely irresistable. Every family has their favourites. Mine is my sister’s cherry-centred dainty. They disappear as quickly as she sets them out. Their only rival is my Mom-in- law’s substantial slices of sweet shortbread which are
Crops, Oilseeds

Canola Biodiesel Mandate Remains In Limbo

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Canola, looks to miss out on potential domestic demand from biodiesel until Canada clarifies its fuel mandate and offers new incentives to an already heavily subsidized industry. Canada has finished selecting biodiesel plant proposals to receive funding from a $1.5-billion program, aiming to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17 per cent by 2020 from 2005
Crops, Oilseeds

Canada’s Record Canola Crush To Spur By-Product Exports

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Increased crush capacity in Western Canada will result in a record amount of canola being processed during the current crop year and boost exports of canola oil and meal, according to a government analyst. “Right now, I am forecasting that processors in Canada will crush 5.5 million tonnes of canola,” said Chris Beckman, an oilseed
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

The Butternut Squash Rediscovered

“Don’t forget to plant the butternut squash…” I kept urging my husband this spring, who does the bulk of the spring garden work every year. He didn’t forget. A good thing too. We lost most of our garden’s potatoes to blight this year. But in our basement cold room where potatoes in gunny sacks would
News, Oilseeds

Seed Ban Has Silver Lining

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China’s partial ban on canola seed imports from Canada last year was a boon to value-added exports of oil and meal to that country. While exports of canola seed to China fell in 2009 after it declared it would no longer accept Canadian canola unless it was certified free of the fungal disease blackleg, exports
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Farmers Welcome Canola Crush Expansion

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Bunge’s plan to more than double the capacity of its canola-crushing plant at Altona to 2,500 tonnes a day is good news for farmers, but it also means they’ll have to grow more canola. “We’re always glad to see investment in the canola crush because it creates demand and more demand must mean they are
Crops, Oilseeds

Dow AgroSciences Touts Profit Potential Of Nexera Hybrids

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Nexera canola varieties are a good deal for farmers and will only get better, according to Dow AgroSciences. Nexera canola is known for its highly stable oil, which has a long shelf life and therefore doesn’t have to be hydrogenated, a process which creates trans fats. But the knock has always been that Nexera varieties
Crops, Oilseeds

Soybeans Fighting Canola To Get Markets Back

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Soybeans are fighting back. Soybean oil is still the most consumed vegetable oil in North America, but it’s been losing ground to canola, which is regarded as the healthiest vegetable oil because it contains just seven per cent saturated fat. Part of canola’s gains have resulted from the development of high-stability, omega-9 oil. It has

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