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WGEA executive director Wade Sobkowich says farmers won’t be able to deliver grain treated with either quinclorac or chlormequat to member elevators in the 2016-17 crop year.
Crops, News

Grain companies won’t buy crops treated with quinclorac or chlormequat in 2016

The Western Grain Elevator Association says to do otherwise would jeopardize important 
Canadian canola and wheat export markets

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It’s going to be a hard “no” from the major grain companies for 2016-17 deliveries of canola sprayed with the herbicide quinclorac and wheat treated with the growth regulator chlormequat. The announcement came recently from the Western Grain Elevator Association when it introduced its Declaration of Elegibility affidavits for the coming crop year, noting the
Curt Vossen. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

China may pay more for canola if standard changes

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Winnipeg | Reuters –– Richardson International, one of Canada’s two largest grain handlers, may raise the price of canola shipments to China to reflect Beijing’s costly higher standard, its CEO said Thursday. The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa said in March that China had delayed to Sept. 1 its new standard for no more than one per
(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Crops, Markets

China delays implementing Canadian canola standard

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Winnipeg | Reuters –– China has delayed implementing a tougher standard on Canadian canola shipments, just days before it was to take effect, as a result of talks between the two countries, a Chinese government spokesperson said. China’s new standard for foreign material in canola shipments will take effect Sept. 1 instead of April 1,
Canola growers asked not to use quinclorac herbicide this year
Crops, Oilseeds

Canola growers asked not to use quinclorac herbicide this year

While the weed killer is registered in Canada it hasn’t been approved in China, 
one of Canada’s most important canola customers

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Canadian canola growers are advised not to use the herbicide quinclorac on their canola in 2016 because China, one of Canada’s biggest customers, has not yet approved it. “Until these questions are resolved, growers should use other options to control cleavers on their farms,” the Canola Council of Canada says on its website. “It’s a
CanoLAB participants worked through an exercise of extracting the DNA from a strawberry to get a better understanding of how canola diagnostics work.
Crops, Local news, Oilseeds

Canola issues, close up and hands on

CanoLAB participants were given an overview of how different crops are best integrated into canola rotations

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This year’s canoLAB put a sharp focus on canola rotations and expanded the scope slightly, beyond a single crop. “This year we are not only looking at canola but crops that would be in rotation with canola, so it is intended to be a holistic or systems approach to farming,” said Angela Brackenreed, agronomy specialist
Dow AgroSciences announced the launch of a new high-protein canola meal called ProPound at the Canadian Canola Council’s 49th annual conference held in San Diego on March 1.
Livestock, News

Coming soon to a hog barn near you

A new high-protein canola meal could reduce hog feed costs

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Dow AgroSciences used the Canola Council of Canada convention in San Diego to launch a new high-protein feed option for hogs made from canola meal. ProPound is designed to be a cost-effective replacement to soybean meal in hog and poultry feed. “ProPound represents a step change in the quality of canola meal,” said Dave Hickling,
(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Crops, Markets

Canada presses China on science in canola trade spat

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canada is urging the Chinese government to stick to scientific facts in decisions on trade as Beijing plans to toughen its standard on Canadian canola shipments, federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay said Thursday. China’s quarantine authority, AQSIQ, notified the Canadian Food Inspection Agency last month that it would allow no more
VIDEO: Canola is weak today, but hope glimmers on the horizon
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VIDEO: Canola is weak today, but hope glimmers on the horizon

The Western Producer's Ed White talks with the SciBabe, one of the speakers at the Canola Council of Canada's annual conference in San Diego

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Day one of the Canola Council of Canada’s main program in San Diego was threaded together with concerns about weak crop prices, volatile markets, food politics and the management skills needed to run businesses in industries that not only involve changing technologies, but also disruptive factors and different expectations. And as always in recent years across

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