Insights and Stories on Canola

Canada presses China on science in canola trade spat

Mar. 10, 2016 at 5:12 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada is urging the Chinese government to stick to scientific facts in decisions on trade as Beijing plans to toughen its standard on Canadian canola shipments, federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay said Thursday. China’s quarantine authority, AQSIQ, notified the Canadian Food Inspection Agency last month that […]

Paterson taps brakes on China canola sales

Mar. 2, 2016 at 7:24 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

Blackleg, big stocks seen behind China-Canada canola conflict

Feb. 25, 2016 at 4:06 pm CST

By Niu Shuping Rod Nickel

Canola testing chart support

Oct. 30, 2015 at 8:56 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Scorching heat delays India’s rapeseed sowing

Oct. 28, 2015 at 12:23 pm CDT

By rajendra-jadhav

Three young Alta. sisters lost to grain truck mishap

Oct. 14, 2015 at 4:00 pm CDT

Rocky Mountain House | AFE — A community in central Alberta is in mourning following the deaths of three young sisters in a grain truck mishap on Tuesday night. “This is hitting us all very hard. Frontline responders are routinely called out to sad situations, but things are always harder […]

By Jennifer Blair

Three Alta. girls smothered in truckload of canola

Oct. 14, 2015 at 11:39 am CDT

Two 11-year-old girls and a 13-year-old girl have died after being smothered in a truckload of canola on a farm in western Alberta, according to RCMP and local media. Rocky Mountain House RCMP said late Tuesday they were called at about 6:15 that evening to a farm near Withrow, about […]

By Staff

Weekly canola crush hits new record

Oct. 9, 2015 at 4:44 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Canola oil is flowing freely in Western Canada, with domestic processors crushing more canola in a single week than ever before, according to the latest data from the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA). The weekly canola crush hit 184,493 tonnes during the week ended Wednesday, which is […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Dawson: Ag exporters applaud historic TPP deal

Oct. 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm CDT

Export-oriented Canadian farmers are giving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement reached in Atlanta on Monday two thumbs up. The deal, which remains to be debated in Canada’s House of Commons and could take more than a year to be ratified by all 12 member countries, will see tariffs on Canadian […]

By Allan Dawson

Producer groups lobby for TPP deal in Atlanta

Sep. 29, 2015 at 2:29 am CDT

Several Canadian grain and livestock commodity groups have representatives in Atlanta this week pressing for federal negotiators to keep Canada in play on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trade ministers from the 12 TPP countries — also including the U.S., Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei […]

By Staff