Every farm has acres that suck in resources and don’t give anything in return. These unprofitable acres are fairly easy to recognize – soils are degraded, crops are thin and weeds are prolific. The whole farm might benefit from taking these acres out of annual crop production—and here’s how to do it.
Canola seeds, soybeans, palm fruit, sunflower seeds and olives produce the common vegetable oils used in kitchens around the world. Each has its own processing method based on seed characteristics and customer preference.
Spring canola works well across the northern Ontario cropping area, but surprisingly good results for winter canola in southernmost parts of the province in 2020 should have more farmers taking a look at the crop.
The Canola Research Hub at canolaresearch.ca is a user-interactive database
with practical tools that bring grower investment in agronomic research back to the farm. If you like to learn through videos, the Hub has two new video interviews to explain recent research on cabbage seedpod weevil management and fungicides to control blackleg.