SaskCanola Archives

Saskatchewan crop boards under new leadership

By Grainews Staff February 16, 2024

The new year has come with a lot of newness at Saskatchewan’s crop development boards, as two approved a merger and two others elected new leaders last month. SaskCanola and SaskFlax saw formal voting on an amalgamation plan during the two organizations’ annual general meetings and the plan “was met with widespread approval,” they said. […] Read more

Crops, General

Sask. canola, flax groups vote to merge

SaskCanola and SaskFlax have been sharing offices, admin for about a year

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News January 11, 2024

Producer support for the merge of SaskCanola and SaskFlax was "overwhelming," the groups said in a Jan. 10 news release. The organizations held a joint annual general meeting to share results of member feedback before taking the issue to a vote. The vote passed with "widespread approval," the release said.

An increase in the incidence of verticillium stripe in neighbouring Manitoba has prompted SaskCanola to add it to the list of diseases included in its free testing program.

Canola, News

SaskCanola expands disease testing program

Verticillium stripe added to the lineup of free initiative

By Jim Timlick July 26, 2023

A program that offers free canola disease testing to producers in Saskatchewan has widened its scope. The disease monitoring program, offered by SaskCanola in conjunction with the Saskatchewan agriculture department, is free to producers across the province. Blackleg and clubroot testing have been available through the program for the past few years but this is […] Read more

Crops

SaskCanola, SaskFlax merge offices, management

Groups will maintain separate governing boards, levies

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 6, 2023

Sasskatchewan’s canola and flax development commissions are consolidating their management, staff and office space under one roof. SaskCanola and SaskFlax said Wednesday their new “management collaboration” will translate to efficiencies for both commissions with “a full staff complement to support both boards.” Both organizations will now operate out of the current SaskCanola office at Innovation […] Read more

five steel grain bins sitting in canola field.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Changes afoot at the Canola Council of Canada

By Leeann Minogue January 8, 2019

If you’re still in a post-Christmas fog of too much turkey and stuffing, you may have forgotten that on December 5, the Canola Council of Canada announced some changes to its agronomy program. First, a quick review. The Canola Council is funded partly by farmers, through the levies that come off your cheques when you […] Read more

University of Alberta researcher Victor Manoli tours International Clubroot Workshop delegates through his research work at Alberta’s Crop  Diversification Centre North. Manoli has infected these plants with clubroot spores to enable future study.

Canola, Features

No silver bullet for international disease

Scientists from around the globe met in Edmonton to discuss the latest on clubroot

By Leeann Minogue October 5, 2018

The world’s top canola researchers and agronomists met in Edmonton in early August to talk about their work on the pathogen that’s lowering canola yields throughout Alberta and spreading to the rest of the Prairies. While researchers at the International Clubroot Workshop discussed the scientific research underway, farmer delegates were disappointed to hear there is […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Saskatchewan to tap farm leaders for drainage board

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 16, 2017

Representatives from four Saskatchewan farmer organizations will sit on a new provincial advisory board on farm drainage policy. The provincial government on Tuesday announced the creation of two advisory boards: a policy development board and technical review board. Specific members haven’t yet been named to either board, but the province said the policy advisory board […] Read more

Canola, Crops

CPT small plot data is now online

By Leeann Minogue January 26, 2017

Small plot data from the 2016 Canola Performance Trials has been posted online. At the CPT website you can look up average yield, height, lodging and days to maturity for tested canola varieties. Filters on the website let you look for results in specific locations, and directly compare one variety to another. These small plots […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Features

The Canola Performance Trials

Who pays for them? Why? Learn more about how to make the trials work for you

By Dilia Narduzzi March 4, 2016

Do you depend on your provincial seed guides to help you make a choice about what varieties of canola you’re going to plant any given year? If so, you may be wondering, given that those great resources are available, why the Canola Performance Trials (CPT) are also important for making decisions for your particular acreage. […] Read more

License to Farm is a full-length film produced by SaskCanola. The goal of the film is to inspire farmers to start talking to consumers.

Columns

Ag reporting gets more glamorous

Film premieres are not usually on the list of events that farm reporters are asked to cover

By Lisa Guenther February 19, 2016

Film premieres are rare events for farm journalists. I’ve been told by better-dressed people that farm journalists are not known for their fashion sense, so perhaps that’s the reason. So naturally I couldn’t pass up a chance to attend the License to Farm premiere at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon. If you haven’t seen the […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

GFM Network News