Roger Chevraux has been re-elected as chair of the Alberta Canola board of directors, along with Ian Chitwood as vice-chair, a Jan. 23 news release said. The elections took place at the annual general meeting held on Jan. 17 in Lethbridge, Alta. Four new directors,...
The prairie provincial canola grower associations have made the decision to discontinue funding of the current variety trial program. Following struggles with the current canola performance trials (CPT), the provincial canola growers’ associations have made the choice...
The Alberta Canola Producers Commission will hold the first ever Alberta Canola Conference in conjunction with the association’s annual general meeting on Jan. 17 and 18, 2023, a Dec. 6 newsletter said. The conference and AGM will be held in Lethbridge, Alta....
Better growing conditions in Western Canada helped to push national wheat production for the 2022 growing season to the third largest on record, Statistics Canada’s production of principal field crops for November 2022, said. Canadian farmers reported producing...
The Western Canada canola performance trials (CPT) program will end following the release of the 2022 growing season results, Alberta Canola said in an emailed statement on Oct. 18. In the statement Alberta Canola said it “takes the investments of farmers...
Bayer has opened a canola seed production site in Cranbrook, B.C. to manage all of the company’s canola pre-foundation, foundation, and experimental plot seed operations for Canada and Chile, an Oct. 12 news release said. “We invested in this site because...
