Research

Agronomic research and technology is a priority for MCGA. MCGA maintains the funding to agronomic research projects to ensure that Canadian and Manitoba canola remains a high quality crop. The majority of canola check-off dollars go to research that focuses on increasing the quality and yield of canola while decreasing the costs of production.

Research Tax Credit Available for Producers

Manitoba Market Share Information

MASC (MB Agricultural Insurance Corporation) seeded acreage information on canola market share and top 20 varieties for 2009.

Click here to download the excel file.  It has two tabs, where the first tab is the top 20 varieties, and the second tab is the change is herbicide tolerance system grown, type and oil profiles (traditional or HOLI – high oleic, low linolenic).

2009 Canola Profile

Canola production overview for 2009. 

The most recent Census of Agriculture counted 19,054 farms in Manitoba.
• Canola, Manitoba’s 2nd largest field crop, was produced on 5,861 farms.
• As the number of census farms continue to drop, Manitoba’s canola farm numbers follow similar trends.
• Canola is grown in most agricultural areas of the province, with the largest concentrations in Central and
Southwest regions.
• Agronomic concerns make it unlikely that canola area in Manitoba will surpass 3.1 million acres or
approximately 16% of the province’s 19,073,005 acres of cropland.

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Comparison of Certified and Farm-Saved Seed on Yield and Quality Characteristics of Canola

Relatively high seed prices and low canola (Brassica napus L.) grain prices created a controversy over using farm-saved seed from hybrids. Agronomic implications of saving seed from a canola crop were investigated by planting certifi ed seed and saved-seed of an open-pollinated and a hybrid canola cultivar at eight site-years in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada. In one series of experiments cultivars and seed rates were compared, while in another experiment seed treatments and use of sized seed were investigated.

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The Profitability of Seeding the F2 Generation of Hybrid Canola

The high cost of hybrid (HY) canola (Brassica napus L.) seed has some producers considering F
2 generation hybrid farm-saved seed (HY-FSS), or open-pollinated (OP) varieties (both certified and farm-saved seed). The net return (NR) of different varieties, genetic backgrounds, seeding rates, seed treatments, and seed sizing was evaluated from three experiments over eight site-years of field data from western Canada.

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