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In this photo of a wilt-affected plant’s stem at harvest, black microsclerotia can be seen just below the surface layer. (Gov.mb.ca/agriculture)
Canola, Crops, Machinery

Verticillium wilt makes jump to Canadian canola

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A Manitoba canola field has been confirmed as the first in North America with Verticillium wilt, a fungal disease well known to northern Europe’s canola and vegetable growers. With no seed treatments or foliar fungicides yet registered against it — and with no resistant canola varieties available — the disease, if here to stay, may […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola gains outpacing U.S. market

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — The ICE Futures Canada canola market moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, despite losses seen in the Chicago soybean market, which normally drives canola. “It’s good sturdy firmness, but I don’t know if there’s anything special behind it,” said Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg. “Traders tend to trade canola […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola up, watching beans

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts posted solid gains during the week ended Wednesday, despite the release of a relatively bearish Statistics Canada production report during the period. StatsCan pegged the country’s 2014-15 canola crop at 15.5 million tonnes — about 1.5 million tonnes above earlier guesses and well above average pre-report trade […] Read more
LeMine Investment Group, which has done a $1 billion deal to ship Canadian canola oil to China, now has a Saskatchewan canola crushing plant on its drawing board, according to CEO Thomas Liu. (LeMineGroup.com)
Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Condo seller to tap China’s edible oil demand

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters — A Canadian company better known for selling condominiums has walked into a $1 billion deal to ship edible oil to China as consumer demand there overtakes domestic supplies. Fengguan Edible Oil Ltd. Co., a Chinese producer of oil from rapeseed, contacted Toronto-based LeMine Investment Group this year about securing canola oil, […] Read more
(LDCYorkton.com)
Canola, Crops, Machinery

Dreyfus unsure when Sask. canola plant will reopen

Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– A month after an explosion crippled the Louis Dreyfus Commodities canola crushing plant at Yorkton, Sask., it’s still unclear when operations will resume. LDC Canada’s vice-president Brian Conn issued a statement Tuesday outlining its “preliminary assessment” of the situation. While the investigation is ongoing, Dreyfus’ assessment so far indicates the Oct. 24 […] Read more
(Canola Council of Canada photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets

Steadier demand sought in China for Canadian canola

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Chinese demand for Canada’s canola and canola oil remains a key driver for the Canadian industry — but China has been an inconsistent customer in the past, which makes developing ongoing relationships important. China in 2013-14 imported 3.9 million tonnes of Canadian canola, accounting for almost half of Canada’s total exports during […] Read more
man harvesting a canola swath
Canola, Cereals, Crops, Pulses

The straight goods on straight cutting crops

Straight cutting has the potential to make canola harvest much more efficient, so we ask one of the West’s top researchers about the state of the art

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Just 20 years ago, virtually every acre of Western Canada was swathed before it ever saw a combine. But then a few things started to fall into place — mainly cheaper off-patent glyphosate — that meant farmers could stop the growth of their crops and get them to dry them down more quickly and uniformly. […] Read more

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