Find out what farmers and agronomists who attended canolaPALOOZA 2017 in Saskatoon, Portage la Prairie and Lacombe say were the highlights from this hands-on, expert-laden, wide-open and fun agronomyfest.
Canola Digest asks its farmer panelists for 2021-22 to describe the best return-on-investment purchase that they made recently, and to describe what motivated them to make the purchase.
Researchers across western Canada are working towards developing new tools to help producers manage two serious diseases in canola – blackleg and sclerotinia stem rot. This project, led by SaskCanola, partners with the Alberta Canola and the Federal Government under Growing Forward 2 (GF2). This Agri-Science Project, which is still in progress, has multiple activities focused on new discoveries and solutions for managing these diseases.
The Canola Council of Canada co-hosted Canola Week December 5-7 in Calgary. The program included state-of-the-industry updates, agronomy research and innovations in breeding, production and processing. Here are a few topics that made the Canola Digest editor sit up and take notice.