Spring canola harvest looms

Feb 14, 2020 at 08:14 AM CST
Harvesting canola in the spring can be frustrating. That means a lot of frustrated prairie canola producers will be climbing into combines in the next few months. Based on industry estimates and data from Statistics Canada, western Canadian farmers left more than two million acres of canola in the field this winter. That includes an estimated 900,000 acres in Alberta and the Peace River area, about 200,000 acres in southwestern Manitoba, and a million acres in Saskatchewan, primarily in province’s east-central region. Curtis Rempel, vice-president of crop production and innovation with the Canola Council of Canada, said it’s difficult to predict how much marketable canola will be salvaged from fields this spring.

Feb 14, 2020 at 08:14 AM CST

Harvesting canola in the spring can be frustrating. That means a lot of frustrated prairie canola producers will be climbing into combines in the next few months. Based on industry estimates and data from Statistics Canada, western Canadian farmers left more than two million acres of canola in the field this winter. That includes an estimated 900,000 acres in Alberta and the Peace River area, about 200,000 acres in southwestern Manitoba, and a million acres in Saskatchewan, primarily in province’s east-central region. Curtis Rempel, vice-president of crop production and innovation with the Canola Council of Canada, said it’s difficult to predict how much marketable canola will be salvaged from fields this spring.