On November 7, 2023, Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA) and the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) went to Parliament Hill to meet with parliamentarians and senior staff to advocate on behalf of Canada’s 43,000 canola farmers and the entire canola value chain. CCGA and CCC concluded a full day of meetings with a joint parliamentary reception.
Canola Performance Trials (CPTs) for 2017 included straight cut trials, more clubroot-resistant varieties and extra detail on environment and management for each trial site. Find the latest data at canolaperformancetrials.ca
In the winter of 2020-21, the Canola Council of Canada surveyed 1,000 canola growers on a wide range of production questions. We discovered a few areas that may require a little extra agronomy attention. Here are three big ones.
Canada’s farmers say that unpredictability of the sector is their number one cause of stress. The good news is, there are ways to reduce this uncertainty, even when it seems like everything is outside of one’s control.
Canola growers and agronomists can use spore detection tools to identify the presence of the sclerotinia pathogen in a field. This answers a major question – but not the only question — when it comes to sclerotinia stem rot risk.