Manitoba Bulletin

March 2023—MCGA presented its 2023 Canola Award of Excellence to Michael Eskin, distinguished professor and occasional food science rapper Michael Eskin, distinguished professor in the Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences at the University of Manitoba (U of M), was awarded the 2023 Canola Award of Excellence in February for his crucial role in the...

January 2023—Social media has opened a window into the lives of farmers that has never existed before. On any given day you can check in with The Tulepps, and many others in the agricultural community, as they post about what they are doing and why they are doing it, with full transparency. Sisters Stefanie and Cassandra...

Science Edition 2022—In 2022, Manitoba Canola Growers launched a pilot on-farm research program to help farmers across the province fill the gap between traditional research results and the farm level experience. The program aims to provide applied, transferable research results to farmers to allow for the adoption of new and improved production practices by evaluating performance across...

November 2022—The story of canola production in Canada is an exciting journey of innovation and growth that has long been supported by people committed to seeing the crop, and the farmers who grow it, prosper. Even before the days when Baldur Stefansson and Keith Downey collaborated with other scientists, chemists, nutritionists and plant breeders to create...

September 2022—This summer, Manitoba Canola Growers set out to help build connections between researchers and farmers across Manitoba with the launch of Canola Research Camp. Research camp was designed to encourage the highest quality of research, focused on providing farm-level value to growers across the province. Over the span of two days, MCGA took eight researchers...