Insights and Stories on Canola Oil

Conagra to sell Wesson oil brand to Smucker

May. 30, 2017 at 2:26 pm CDT

Reuters — Packaged food maker Conagra Brands said on Tuesday it would sell its Wesson cooking oil brand to Folgers coffee maker J.M. Smucker Co. for about US$285 million. Conagra will continue to manufacture products sold under the Wesson brand for up to one year following the close, after which […]

Canola acres seen rising on high prices

Jan. 17, 2017 at 5:53 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

Newfoundland harvests first canola crop

Sep. 24, 2016 at 7:43 pm CDT

By Staff

China’s canola meal supply may fall under tighter standards

Mar. 6, 2016 at 1:28 am CST

By Reuters

Weekly canola crush hits new record

Oct. 9, 2015 at 4:44 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Loan called on Legumex’s U.S. canola crusher

Aug. 5, 2015 at 6:27 pm CDT

Prairie special crop processor Legumex Walker is weighing its options after major lenders to the company’s U.S. canola crushing arm called their loan. Pacific Coast Canola, a cold-press canola crushing operation at Warden, Wash., about 160 km southwest of Spokane, is 84 per cent owned by TSX-traded, Winnipeg-based Legumex, and 16 […]

By Staff

Canada’s canola crop woes cut crusher profits to two-year low

Jun. 30, 2015 at 11:54 am CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Problems with Canada’s canola crop are driving up the oilseed’s price, cutting processors’ margins to their lowest levels in two years and threatening to boost the price of a key ingredient of salad dressings and potato chips. Frost and dry conditions on the Canadian Prairies have […]

By Rod Nickel

U.S. trans fat ban creates opportunities for canola

Jun. 16, 2015 at 7:27 pm CDT

CNS Canada — A move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban artificial trans fats in processed foods within three years will create opportunities for Canada’s canola sector, especially high oleic varieties such as Nexera. Partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), which are the primary source of artificial trans fat […]