Science

Openers and emergence

Management Practices for Optimum Canola Emergence

Canola Eat Well

Pathway To Boost Canola Oil Usage In Ontario

Consumer surveys show that canola oil lags olive oil in the Ontario market. Canola Eat Well can use data on consumer preferences and decision drivers to create canola oil promotion strategies for Canada’s biggest market. While canola oil is the most used oil in Western Canada, the same can’t be said for Ontario, home to...

Fertility Management

Study compares seven strategies to reduce fertilizer inputs

Key result: This study compared seven cropping systems in year one, followed by canola in year two and wheat in year three. On a benefit:cost ratio basis, three treatments – year-one cattle manure, year-one green manure crop, and annual application of bio-stimulants – would perform better than other cropping systems investigated in this study. Alberta...

The Editor's Desk

Tastes change

Pork supply in Japan was 2.17 kg per person per year in 1961. (I know pork isn’t canola, but stay with me.) Pork supply in Japan rose steadily over the next 50 years to 20.51 in 2011. The rapid adoption of pork into the diet was even more dramatic in China, going from 2.36 to...

Science

Hybrid and seed lot choice could influence seeding rate

KEY RESULT: This study compared three canola seeding rates (5, 10 and 15 seeds per square foot) with small and large seed size lots from two different hybrids. It concluded that the most economic and least risky seeding rate to achieve adequate plant stand population is about 10 seeds per square foot because the response...