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The Canola Council of Canada says hot days and warm nights from bud to mid-flowering stages can have a devastating effect on canola yield.
Canola, News

Nexera offers free heat blast insurance on canola until October 29, 2021

Fully automatic coverage with a payout as temperatures rise

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Western Canadian farmers thinking about growing Nexera canola have until the end of October to take advantage of free crop insurance coverage providing up to $100 per acre in protection against heat blast during the 2022 growing season.  Corteva Agriscience has introduced this first-of-its-kind insurance coverage, known as the Heat Advantage program, providing insurance of […] Read more
File photo of a canola crop south of Ethelton, Sask. in 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Weather

Nexera canola seed to come with heat blast insurance

Corteva's 'Heat Advantage' provides coverage on seed purchased by Oct. 29

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Farmers can’t prevent canola flowers from aborting in hot weather resulting in lower yields, but one seed company is providing some insurance against it — as part of the price of the seed. Brevant’s Nexera canola seed comes with a “a first-of-its-kind” insurance policy worth up to $100 an acre to offset yield losses due […] Read more
Weather worked against Manitoba grower’s Nexera canola crop
Canola, Crops, Features

Weather worked against Manitoba grower’s Nexera canola crop

Increased contracting opportunity for high-quality specialty canola for 2020

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Just about every element possible worked against Dustin Williams’ Nexera canola crop on his southwest Manitoba farm in 2019. Cool, dry conditions at seeding, stagey crop development, multiple insect pressure, hail, poor harvest weather, too much rain, snow and ice. And then, just as the swathed crop was about to be combined, strong winds blew […] Read more
For every specialty crop, there is a special process to becoming a contract grower.
Crops, Features

Lock in sales with a special contract

Looking for a way to differentiate your crop from the rest of the pack?

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Are you looking for ways to change your marketing situation? Differentiate your product from everything else at the elevator? Signing special contracts with specific companies is one way to do this. Avena Food pays its contact holders premium prices for gluten-free oats. Warburtons, a U.K. bread company, pays premiums for specialty wheat grown by contract holding […] Read more

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