Business Management

9 steps to find and keep skilled workers

Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council provides nine steps to recruit, select and hire the right people for the job. This article is based on a webinar sponsored by Alberta Canola.

5 Steps to Better...

Variety decisions

Growers have many excellent varieties and traits to choose from. So which combination is best for your fields?

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Full Circle

When Garry Thiel’s father grew rapeseed for the first time in the late 1940s, he straight combined the crop. Granted, this was Polish canola, which had better shatter tolerance than Argentine of the day, but I find it significant that the first inclination for early adopters like the Thiels was to cut and combine in...

Canola Research Hub

A Hub of activity at canolaPALOOZA

The Canola Research Hub at canolaresearch.ca is a user-interactive database with practical tools designed to return growers’ investment in agronomic research back to the farm. The Hub was recently featured at canolaPALOOZA across the Prairies.

The Alberta Canola Producers Commission is seeking four canola growers to serve as directors on the board of directors for a three-year term. This year, directors are needed in regions 2, 5, 8 and 11. Alberta Canola divides Alberta into 12 regions, with each region electing a producer director to represent the canola growers within...