PHOTO: Professor Habibur Rahman (right) and research associate Berisso Kebede Demo are working to improve the genetic...
Canola
In 2024, Canola Disease Threats are Lurking in the Soil
PHOTO: Clubroot. Alberta farmers only need to look at the history of their fields and weather from years past to...
Alberta Canola Announces New Board of Directors
Alberta Canola warmly welcomes Jeff Frost from Olds, Alberta, to its board. Frost is an alumni of Alberta Canola’s...
U of G Canola Research Shows Possible 250 Per cent Yield Increase
Promising research shows a canola yield increase of a whopping 250 per cent in experimental plants. Future canola...
Feds Give Money to Create Canola Cluster
The Canadian government is giving over $9 million to the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) through the AgriScience...
Does Wider Canola Row Spacing Optimize Returns… Or Risk Consequences?
Seeding canola wide can impact everything from seed cost to weed management to disease potential, but what spacing...
Supplementing Cattle Diets with Canola Seed Pellets
A research project looked into if canola seed pellets can be used as a dietary supplement for pregnant cows to improve...
New Clubroot Strains Capable of Infecting Resistant Canola Found
A study from the University of Alberta has identified new strains of clubroot across Western Canada, an Aug. 14 news...
RDAR Makes $1.25 Million Investment in Clubroot Research
Results Driven Agriculture Research (RDAR), the Alberta Canola Producers Commission and the Saskatchewan Canola...
Chris Davison Hired as New Canola Council of Canada President
Chris Davison has been hired as the new Canola Council of Canada (CCC) president and CEO, a July 11 news release said....
Using Silicon in Soil to Battle Clubroot
A new study from the University of Alberta has found that by adding silicon to soil it could help battle clubroot, a...
Researchers Close to Utilizing Rapeseed For Human Consumption
In the European Union, half of plant proteins come from rapeseed plants. The plant has only previously been used for...
Prairie Canola Groups Fund Five Research Projects
The three Prairie provincial canola grower associations will be funding five new research projects focusing on...
Marcus Samuel is Playing with Canola Genes
Marcus Samuel has modified canola to help make the Canadian crop weather the future. Marcus Samuel started out working...
NRGene Canada Advances Clubroot Technology
The following piece is from our sister publication, Germination. Technology could be a game-changer in the fight...
Commercial Launch of Optimum GLY Canola Announced by Corteva Agriscience
Farmers will have access to proprietary, advanced herbicide trait technology for canola for the 2023 planting season,...
Roger Chevraux Re-elected as Alberta Canola Chair
Roger Chevraux has been re-elected as chair of the Alberta Canola board of directors, along with Ian Chitwood as...
Western Canada Canola Performance Trials Ending
The prairie provincial canola grower associations have made the decision to discontinue funding of the current variety...
Alberta Canola Conference to Start in 2023
The Alberta Canola Producers Commission will hold the first ever Alberta Canola Conference in conjunction with the...
2022 Canadian Wheat Harvest Third Largest on Record
Better growing conditions in Western Canada helped to push national wheat production for the 2022 growing season to...