When your farm is EU-certified, the canola you grow is eligible for export to Europe’s important biofuel market. It’s a simple and timely way to gain access to this significant market opportunity.
Merit Functional Foods has broken ground on its 88,000 square foot pea and canola protein extraction facility in the Northwest area of Winnipeg. When operational later in 2020, the extraction facility operated is expected to initially process approximately 20,000 tonnes of pea and canola annually.
Challenging harvest conditions or combine mismanagement can push canola harvest losses as high as 10 per cent of yield. This article will explain how to check for losses and how to set the combine to reduce losses.
If you want to know the grade of your canola going into delivery season, you can send samples to the Canadian Grain Commission’s Harvest Sample Program. As long as the sample is an accurate representation of the canola you’ll deliver, the extra knowledge could help when it comes to marketing.
Canadian canola growers will have access to TruFlex, which expands the application rate and window for glyphosate on canola. InVigor growers will notice a new acres-per-bag approach to seed packaging. Seed companies continue to layer more high-demand traits into the same hybrids.