Farmer Panel

Marketing strategy changes for 2022

Canola Digest asks its six farmer panelists how higher crop prices over the past year and how uncertain weather and productivity in 2021 might change their marketing strategies for 2022?

Canola Eat Well

Hey chefs, what are customers asking about your ingredients?

Chefs are the masters who take raw ingredients and create amazing food. They are at the front lines when people have questions about food and about the farmers who produce the ingredients. Chefs can help tell your story.

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How to increase yield with fertilizer

After a year of lower-than-average yields – including extremely disappointing yields in some areas – everyone wants an increase in 2022. More than that, they want to increase profitability, especially under weather stress. This article will talk about fertilizer practices that can increase profits, reduce risk and potentially increase yields.

This is the second article in a four-part yield series for the Canola Digest 2021-22 season.

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We will hear a lot more about nitrogen use efficiency

The Government of Canada hinted at a nitrogen policy in a broad-ranging report from last December. With the election out of the way, conversations on nitrogen use efficiency, as part of a large greenhouse gas reduction plan, will probably resume.

The Editor's Desk

Hopper Days

Grasshoppers are eating everything in sight. Let’s party! That was the conclusion of community leaders in my home town of Hartney, Manitoba in 1987. I was a teenager on the farm in the 1980s. The decade started with high interest rates and farm foreclosures and ended with dry conditions and grasshoppers. “It wasn’t much fun,”...