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...

The voice of farmers is an important influence in developing decisions and policies that will support progressive, profitable and forward-thinking canola production. As a farmer funded and directed association, Manitoba Canola Growers has a board of directors who are elected and empowered to make decisions that will benefit farmers and positively affect the future of...

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WCC/RRC Maintains Quality Control

All canola seed sold in Western Canada passes through the Western Canada Canola/Rapeseed Recommending Committee. It coordinates trials at dozens of sites across the Prairies each year to check new candidate cultivars to make sure they meet canola standards for oil quality. It has a pathology subcommittee that, for example, introduces protocols for the blackleg...

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Loss range wider for auto-adjust combines

A PAMI survey of combine losses in 2022 looked at 22 combines, half with auto-adjust capabilities and half manual adjust. Average losses were similar, but auto-adjust combines had more variability in loss levels.

Canola Research Hub

The best crop rotation

…will depend on the region and the farm goals. A five-year study evaluated region-specific crop rotations for nitrogen fertilizer use efficiency, precipitation use efficiency, yield and net revenues. In Kui Lui’s five-year ‘Optimizing systems productivity, resilience and sustainability in the major Canadian ecozones’ project, six region-specific crop rotations were evaluated for nitrogen fertilizer use efficiency,...