Adding another crop such as faba beans to the canola-cereal rotation may not make buckets of money this year, but it offers benefits down the road.

Faba beans could help ease rotation pressure on canola

There has been little export demand, but new, safer varieties are expected to open doors in the domestic food market

Eric McLean, who farms near Oak River, Man., thinks farmers should avoid the “easy button” approach to crop production.“We have to keep trying different things. Honestly, that is the solution, to have that diversification in the crop rotation.”