The Editor's Desk

Disruption distraction

Online shopping disrupted the economics of bricks and mortar stores. Uber disrupted the taxi business. We had a neighbour who used to sell the World Book encyclopedia. She doesn’t do that anymore because Google and Wikipedia disrupted – actually killed – the reference books business. Inspired by a tech presentation at the Bayer Agronomy Summit,...

Farmer Panel

Farm show season

The canola community offers many opportunities for face-to-face learning through canoLAB, canolaPALOOZA and big joint productions like FarmTech in Edmonton, CropSphere in Saskatoon and CropConnect in Winnipeg. These panelists talk about why they attended specific events and what they learned.

The Editor's Desk

Lake Effect

I swam in Chain Lakes this past summer for the first time since I was nine. The Chain Lakes I know is a string of three tiny lakes in Southwest Manitoba, just off Highway 21 between Hartney and Deloraine. My family’s farm – the place I grew up and where my brother and his family...

A container of Jack in the Box fries, with the label "Fried in Canola Oil"

Fast-food chain Jack in the Box switched its frying oil to high-oleic canola oil. Why? And what will keep it that way?

Canola market snapshot

Harvested canola acres have held at around 20 million in Canada over the past four years, producing larger volumes that have served the big four markets and allowed for increased sales into second wave markets such as South Korea and Pakistan.