Farm Management Canada explored the experiences of Canadian farm women in a new study. The report characterized the satisfaction, participation, recognition and support farm women experience, and identified five patterns – content, inspired, constrained, uncertain and obstructed.
The seed pelleting technology from Syngenta makes all canola seeds uniform size to improve singulation when using a planter.
Merit Functional Foods of Winnipeg has supply agreements with Nestle, TWC Nutrition, Daiya Foods, Grand River Foods and many other food and beverage companies to create products containing canola protein. Sidebars describe new opportunities for canola in fish alternatives and aquaculture feed.
Canola growers and agronomists can use spore detection tools to identify the presence of the sclerotinia pathogen in a field. This answers a major question – but not the only question — when it comes to sclerotinia stem rot risk.
In this year of stress, disruption and isolation, farmers can use social media
to their advantage, harnessing its power to connect.