Looking for a new canola hybrid to plant? Nineteen are hitting the market next year, many of them featuring strong disease protection packages and improved pod shatter tolerance. Please note: the following list includes only brand-new hybrid releases for 2025.
BASF
InVigor L330PC is an early-maturing hybrid that comes with high yield potential and BASF’s patented pod shatter reduction technology. It is a strong performer across all growing season zones, also offering strong standability, first-generation clubroot resistance and blackleg resistance.
InVigor L333PC is the earliest maturing hybrid in BASF’s 300 series. Demonstrating great performance in BASF’s 2023 Agronomic Excellence Trials, this canola offers high yield potential, patented pod shatter reduction technology, good standability, first-generation clubroot resistance and blackleg resistance.
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InVigor L341PC is an early-maturing hybrid with patented pod shatter reduction technology and high yield potential across all growing season zones. It is second-generation clubroot resistant, making it a good fit for Alberta farmers and producers elsewhere in Western Canada looking for canola with this kind of clubroot resistance. InVigor L341PC also offers enhanced blackleg protection and standability compared to InVigor L343PC.
BrettYoung
BY 7204LL is the first in BrettYoung’s new generation of LibertyLink hybrids. This mid-maturity canola offers strong early-season vigour, excellent standability and consistent yield performance over a variety of conditions. In addition, BY 7204LL is equipped with Pod DefendR, a pod reduction trait, which is rated 7.5 on the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) shatter tolerance rating scale, as well as the Clubroot DefendR trait, which provides next-generation clubroot resistance. It also comes with the Rlm7 blackleg resistance gene.
BY 6219TF is a medium-maturity canola suitable for all growing season zones. This TruFlex hybrid is equipped with the Pod DefendR and Clubroot DefendR traits and it also contains the Rlm7 blackleg resistance gene.
Canterra Seeds
CS3300 TF is an early-maturing TruFlex canola. This hybrid is a good fit for short season growing zones, maturing about 0.7 days earlier and with better standability than CS2600 CR-T. It can also provide added harvest flexibility in all growing season zones.
CS3300 TF comes with Canterra Seeds’ pod shatter trait, which is rated 7+ on the CCC shatter tolerance rating scale. For disease protection, it features first generation clubroot resistance and multigenic blackleg resistance (R-AE2).
Corteva: Pioneer
P519L is the highest-yielding early-maturity canola in the Pioneer seed lineup. This hybrid’s features include a new source of clubroot resistance (CR10), as well as verticillium stripe resistance.
P520L is Pioneer Seed’s first hybrid with improved pod shatter reduction. It also includes a new source of clubroot resistance (CR9), as well as adult plant blackleg resistance.
P617SL is the first and only canola hybrid in Western Canada with fungicide-equivalent protection against sclerotinia (more than 80 per cent sclerotinia protection). Other features include strong adult blackleg and verticillium stripe resistance and a new source of clubroot resistance (CR9).
Corteva: Brevant Seeds
B3901N is a high-yielding, mid-maturity hybrid with the Nexera and LibertyLink traits. It offers excellent early growth, along with resistance to clubroot (CR7) and blackleg.
Similarly, B3018N is a high-yielding mid-maturity hybrid with the Nexera and LibertyLink traits. It features excellent early growth as well as blackleg resistance and a new source of clubroot resistance (CR8).
B3019 is the highest yielding hybrid in the Brevant lineup and has a superior clubroot (CR6+) and blackleg resistance package.
B3020 is a new, mid-maturity hybrid with the best pod shatter reduction score in the Brevant lineup. It features a solid disease protection package that includes clubroot (CR6), blackleg and verticillium stripe resistance.
DeKalb
DK401TL is a mid-maturity TruFlex Liberty Link hybrid, offering strong yield potential as well as DeKalb’s Straight Cut Plus trait for enhanced pod shatter protection. It also features clubroot resistance to current predominant pathotypes as well as blackleg resistance.
DK800LL is a mid-maturity Liberty Link hybrid with high yield potential. It includes the Straight Cut Plus trait and a strong disease package that includes clubroot resistance to current predominant pathotypes and blackleg resistance.
DK801LL is a mid-maturity Liberty Link hybrid with high yield potential. It offers Straight Cut Plus genetics as well as clubroot resistance to current predominant pathotypes and blackleg resistance.
Proven Seed
PV 782 TCN is a high-yielding TruFlex hybrid with increased pod shatter protection through Proven Seed’s new NTACT Technology. NTACT hybrids have been bred and tested in western Canadian conditions to achieve high pod integrity. This clubroot-resistant canola gives growers longer pod fill to maximize yield and the flexibility to delay swath or straight cut.
PV 783 TCN is clubroot-resistant TruFlex canola featuring NTACT technology, which allows canola producers to protect yields, reduce losses and have the flexibility to straight cut. NTACT technology provides this hybrid with a top-rated pod integrity score.
Winfield United
CROPLAN CP24L3C is a mid-maturing LibertyLink hybrid offering excellent yield potential and a strong disease package featuring a unique, broad-spectrum source of clubroot resistance, CR11 (original pathotypes plus 3A, 3D, 5X, 2B, 8E, 9E and 11A). CP24L3C also has excellent standability and is a strong straight cut option, with a 7 score on the CCC shatter tolerance rating scale.
