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Premier Dwight Ball, provincial grain research specialist Dr. Vanessa Kavanagh and Christopher Mitchelmore, minister for the Forestry and Agrifoods Agency, watch the seeding of Newfoundland and Labrador’s first canola field. (Gov.nl.ca)
Canola, Crops

Newfoundland’s first canola field seeded

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Provincial crop researchers in Newfoundland and Labrador have scored a first for the province this spring by seeding its first-ever canola field. Dignitaries including Premier Dwight Ball and Christopher Mitchelmore, the minister responsible for the provincial Forestry and Agrifoods Agency, attended the seeding Friday near Pasadena, about 30 km east of Corner Brook. Agency researchers and […] Read more
Canola at the cotyledon stage. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Canola, Crops, Weather

Prairie canola weathers early frost test

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada –– Despite freezing temperatures in some parts of Western Canada over the past few days, canola appears to be relatively healthy, according to crop watchers. While the true extent of freezing mornings that started last Thursday and stretched into the weekend isn’t yet completely known, two agronomy specialists from the Canola Council of […] Read more
PAMI researchers placed shatter-loss collection pans throughout the fields along the width of the headers. The contents were cleaned and weighed to find out where losses were occurring.
Canola, Crops

Shatter losses in straight-cut canola

PAMI research funded by WGRF shows that the type of header makes a difference

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Halfway through a study examining the role that harvest equipment plays in shatter losses when straight-cutting canola, Nathan Gregg is noticing some trends. “We saw higher losses out at the edges of headers,” says Gregg, a project manager with the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) in Humboldt, Sask. “And losses dropped off as you moved […] Read more
Spraying fungicide might not have to be a routine part of the program if better weather forecasts were available.
Crops

The fine balance of controlling crop diseases

It's a classic example of where short-term decisions can mean long-term problems

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Randy Kutcher recalls that when he moved to Saskatchewan 25 years ago, farmers were using hardly any fungicide. “They were using a bit of fungicide for sclerotinia in canola, and that’s about it. Now it’s pretty much part of the program, and often crops are getting two or more applications, and it’s almost become like […] Read more
Curt Vossen. (Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China may pay more for canola if standard changes

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Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China delays implementing Canadian canola standard

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Reading Time: 2 minutes 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, […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China, Canada in talks as tougher canola standard nears

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters –– Canada and China are in talks about Beijing’s plans to toughen its standard on Canadian canola imports, an industry official said on Monday, just days before the change takes effect. China’s quarantine authority, AQSIQ, notified the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) last month that it would allow no more than one […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Canada presses China on science in canola trade spat

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Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets

Paterson taps brakes on China canola sales

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Winnipeg | Reuters — Crop handler Paterson Grain will take a more cautious approach to selling canola to Chinese buyers for the near term, after China said it would toughen its standard on canola shipments from Canada, the CEO of parent Paterson GlobalFoods said. China’s quarantine authority, AQSIQ, told Ottawa last week it would allow […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Blackleg, big stocks seen behind China-Canada canola conflict

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — A “scientific disagreement” between Canada and China over the risk of transmitting the blackleg fungus is behind China’s move to raise its standard for Canadian canola imports, an industry official involved in discussions said. But some traders say the real reason for a higher standard that may slow Chinese imports is the country’s […] Read more

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