Feature

When do enhanced efficiency fertilizers make sense?

Enhanced efficiency means reduced losses. Fertilizer additives to increase efficiency are most effective in high-risk scenarios – which include high moisture soils, fall application and surface application. Low soil moisture usually means minimal risk of nitrogen loss, but an EEF might help in one scenario.

Farmer Panel

Excited or nervous?

Canola Digest asks its six farmer panelists: What trends in agriculture and food get you excited and what trends make you a little nervous?

Canola Eat Well

What does sustainability mean to others?

Farmers are not alone in the quest for sustainability. All businesses are looking for ways to keep going in the face of change. This article talks to PepsiCo’s Steven James, cookbook author Claire Tansey and Canadian Centre for Food Integrity CEO John Jamieson to see what sustainability
means to them, and how this relates to canola growers.

The Editor's Desk

Breadbasketcase

Canada has just under 90 million acres of cropland, according to the census*, and the Prairies account for most of them. That sounds like a lot, but we are small potatoes. The global cropland area is 3.8 billion acres, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). About 1.5 billion acres...

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?