When your consumer audience wants to know more about farming and food production, why not connect them to best source of information, our farmers? Canola Eat Well did just that by inviting over 100 dieticians and home economists as well as 10 farmers out to Kelburn farm for the evening to Learn. Create. Eat. Learn....
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Late cutting
Leaving standing canola until at least 50 per cent seed colour change on the main stem will mean higher yield and quality than cutting earlier. These four growers wait until at least that point and are pleased with the results.
Canola Research Hub
Harvest losses and their causes
The Canola Research Hub at canolaresearch.ca has a user interactive research database. This article is based on the query “What factors affect harvest losses in the Canadian Prairies?” with data based on a study led by Rob Gulden at the University of Manitoba.
Agronomist Abroad
The seedy side of Chile
Chile has summer during our winter, which gives seed companies a second season for field testing and production. And with so few canola acres in Chile, genetic lines stay pure.