Canola Farming News
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New Crop Health Insights Validate Agriscience Development
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Sep. 21, 2022 – Sentera, the industry leading ag analytics platform powered by machine learning, today launched seven new crop health and performance analytics as part of its FieldInsights product, which helps agronomic leaders make critical in-season and post-harvest decisions with accurate and reliable data sets. For research and seed production leaders in ...
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Sentera Announces Increased Availability of 6X Sensors
PAUL, Minn. – Aug. 31, 2022 – Sentera, the industry leading real-time ag analytics platform powered by machine learning, today announced increased availability of its 6X sensors, which captures high-resolution imagery with eight channels of image data, to meet demand caused by supply chain issues. “Supply chain challenges have drastically impacted the sensor market for ...
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Bayer AG’s Crop Protection Innovation Lab implements 1NCE services in smart insect traps to protect the world’s canola crops
To help farmers detect pests at an early stage and protect critical agriculture, Bayer AG’s Crop Protection Innovation Lab has developed the MagicTrap — a yellow trap that catches and counts potential pests in canola fields automatically and provides data for developing an efficient and sustainable crop protection system. For communication between the yellow trap and the app used by ...
By 1NCE GmbH
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Market Update for Rapeseed & Canola
Update prepared by ISTA Mielke GmbH – Global Oil World analyses and forecasts for oilseeds, oils & fats and oilmeals in Hamburg, Germany. On www.oilworld.de more details are provided about the company profile and the individual services. The looming severe production deficit is likely to keep EU rapeseed prices well supported in July/June 2020/21. Futures on the Matif (Aug position) ...
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Roberts, Stabenow Announce Committee Passage of Grain Standards Reauthorization
U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee passed the bipartisan U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020 by a voice vote. Click here to read the legislation, summary, and section-by-section. “The entire federal grain inspection system needs the certainty, ...
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Cover crops can benefit hot, dry soils
The Southern High Plains of the United States have low annual rainfall. When it does rain, though, intense storms can cause severe soil erosion. Strong winds also strip away valuable topsoil. Usually grown during seasons when primary crops aren’t cultivated, cover crops can include legumes such as pea and hairy vetch, or grassy crops like oats and barley. Cover crops do more than just ...
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The new Flexi-Coil 6100 Precision Disc Drill maximises productivity
Ben Marshman was so impressed with Flexi-Coil’s new 6100 Precision Disc™ Drill that he bought a 60ft drill and a Flexi-Coil 4460 air cart after trialling them last year. The South Australian broadacre grower made the switch to Flexi-Coil after 19 years of disc seeding with other branded machines and said the Flexi-Coil 6100 Precision Disc Drill delivers excellent crop establishment ...
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Women In Ag: Changing The Face Of Farming
Based on the 2016 agriculture census from Stats Canada, the proportion of female farmers is increasing even as the total number of farm operators decreases. In fact, women make up 28.7% of the 272,000 farmers in the country. Yet while more women are working hard on the land, sometimes they also have to work equally as hard to dispel public and industry perceptions. For women like Erica Thew of ...
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The Role of LEDS in Speed Breeding
Some of the most important crops for feeding the ever-increasing global population include wheat and barley. In order to meet the future demand, scientists have a task of finding ways to improve efficiencies in breeding these and other, similar plant species. Typically, more than 10 years are needed to develop novel cultivars with an advanced agronomic performance. On one hand it is because ...
By Valoya Oy
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WA operation increase efficiency by 20%
Since upgrading to Flexi-Coil’s 7660 air cart and 5500 80 ft air drill last year, grain farmer Rodd King has noticed a 20% increase in efficiency on his 5,500 ha operation. “The efficiency is due to the size of the cart and width of the drill,” says Rodd, who has been using Flexi-Coil since 1996 for his wheat, canola, barley and fava bean operation in Cascade, Western ...
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AUG secures precision agriculture project under AAFC’s AgriInnovation Program
AUG crop growth stage estimation technology with AAFC: Prestigious project under AAFC’s AgriInnovation Program for crop management and disease risk assessment Project to provide a commercial tool to facilitate sustainable agriculture management, pest and disease mitigation and resource planning Project will benefit large and small farming operations and also strengthens Canada’s ...
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USPOULTRY Releases Fifth Video in Series Highlighting Poultry and Egg Farm Environmental Stewardship
U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) is releasing a fifth video in a series highlighting environmental stewardship on poultry and egg farms. The video features one of USPOULTRY’s Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award winners, Riverhill Farms of Port Republic, Va. Riverhill Farms is owned and operated by Glenn and Sheri Rodes, along with their parents, brothers and extended ...
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U.S. Air Force Testing BioBased Vehicle Oil Created From Canola Seed, Soybean, And Synthetic Petroleum
On March 22, 2016, a team visited Malmstrom Air Force Base to test a new biobased synthetic oil in the base's vehicles. The testing is sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, with four bases chosen to use the plant based synthetic oil in vehicles. The Department of Homeland Security's Law Enforcement Training Center has also begun testing the ...
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Wild Bee Decline Threatens U.S. Crop Production
The first national study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they’re disappearing in many of the country’s most important farmlands — including California’s Central Valley, the Midwest’s corn belt and the Mississippi River valley. If losses of these crucial pollinators continue, the new nationwide assessment indicates that farmers will face increasing costs — and ...
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Biochemist studies oilseed plants for biofuel, industrial development
A Kansas State University biochemistry professor has reached a milestone in building a better biofuel: producing high levels of lipids with modified properties in oil seeds. Timothy Durrett, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics in the College of Arts & Sciences, and collaborators at Michigan State University and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln have modified ...
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Unmanned drones could play key roles in food supply
Herding cattle. Counting fish. Taking an animal's temperature. Applying pesticides. When it comes to drones, "your imagination can go pretty wild in terms of what would be possible," says Roger Johnson, president of the National Farmers Union. This month, the Federal Aviation Administration issued the first permit for agricultural use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Steven Edgar, president and CEO ...
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Oilseed rape genome sequenced
An International consortium of more than 30 research institutes, coordinated by scientists at INRA and CEA-Genoscope and associating CNRS and University of Evry, just succeeded in deciphering the complex genome of the recent oilseed rape1 (Brassica napus L, also known as rapeseed, rape or canola), the most important oilseed crop in Europe, Canada, and Australia. This scientific breakthrough paves ...
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Rancimat Method Used to Investigate Antioxidant and Antitumor Activities of Alkyl Caffeates in Edible Oils
In a recent research study, Wang et al. investigated the antioxidant activity, antitumor property, and oxidation stability of edible oil with added alkyl caffeates. In order to evaluate the induction period of different edible oils (canola oil, peanut oil, and silkworm pupae oil), a Metrohm 743 Rancimat was used (read more about the latest Rancimat instrument here). Results of the study ...
By Metrohm AG
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USDA spending $3M to feed honeybees in Midwest
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it will spend millions of dollars to help farmers and ranchers improve pastures in five Midwestern states to provide food for the nation's struggling honeybees. Commercial honeybees pollinate an estimated $15 billion worth of produce each year. Many beekeepers bring hives to the Upper Midwest in the summer for bees to gather nectar and ...
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Governments Invest $7 Million into Crop Research
Today Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart and Member of Parliament Kelly Block (Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar), on behalf of Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, announced nearly $7 million in funding for 46 crop-related research projects. “Our Government is proud to support crop research projects that benefit Saskatchewan farmers through improved yields and disease ...
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