Canola growers checking out Syngenta Canada’s 2018 seed guide for Western Canada will notice canola by its absence. Syngenta, which entered the Prairie canola seed market in 2013 and by this spring ...

In 1997, SOILL began processing locally grown canola seeds and, since then, the company has diversified into a range of products, including oils for wholesale, retail, and food services. In 2009, ...

Canola seed is usually treated with both a fungicide and insecticide. The fungicide minimizes seedling losses to damping off, root rot and seed-borne blackleg. The insecticide seed coating is for very ...

One of the main options, at least for canola seed, will be the European Union. The provincial and federal governments unveiled the 2025 AgriInsurance program at Manitoba Ag Days. “EU production ...

Monsanto today announced it acquired the North American canola seed assets of Advanta Seeds from Advanta B.V., a company recently purchased by Fox Paine Capital Fund II International, L.P., including ...

“Tariffs will have devastating impacts on farmers, input providers, canola crushing activities and exports of canola seed, oil and meal,” CCC president and chief executive officer Chris Davison said.

Canadian Judge Andrew MacKay ruled in favor of Monsanto (St. Louis, MO) and Monsanto Canada (Mississauga, Ontario) on March 29 and against Percy Schmeiser, a 70-year-old canola grower, former ...

Blackleg overwinters on infected canola stubble and can survive for at least 2 years. The blackleg fungus may also occur at low levels in the seed. Seed infection is seldom more than 1-2%. However, ...

A possible regulatory compromise on canola would allow the crop to expand beyond 500 acres in Oregon’s Willamette Valley if the seed isn’t genetically engineered. However, it’s unclear ...

In reality, it’s canola. This oil seed is worth billions of dollars a year to the Canadian economy, and is the backbone of many rural farming communities across the prairies. It’s also a hot ...