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Big Oil is Teaming Up With Big Ag, And it Could Turn Cover Crops Into the New Cash Crop for Farmers
Big Oil is Teaming Up With Big Ag, And it Could Turn Cover Crops Into the New Cash Crop for Farmers

Renewable diesel is revving up interest from both agriculture and the oil industry, and now oil and agriculture companies are teaming up to find additional crop sources to fuel the growing demand.

Corteva's New Collaboration with Chevron and Bunge Could Turn Canola into a Cash Crop for Farmers
Corteva's New Collaboration with Chevron and Bunge Could Turn Canola into a Cash Crop for Farmers

A new partnership between Corteva, Bunge and Chevron to create proprietary canola hybrids will boost vegetable oil supplies to fuel the renewable diesel market while also creating a new revenue stream for farmers. 

WinField United Expands Answer Plot Program to Research Farm In North Dakota
WinField United Expands Answer Plot Program to Research Farm In North Dakota

The Wilton, North Dakota site consolidates and elevates the opportunities for diversified field crop research which had been previously scattered and in smaller scale.

FBN Moves Into Canola Breeding
FBN Moves Into Canola Breeding

“We have entered the seed business in the U.S. and we’ve been looking at Haplotech and Cibus for a while now here in Canada,” says Breen Neeser, FBN Canadian country head, in a statement to RealAgriculture.

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BASF Sells Clearfield Canola and Trunemco Seed Treatment

The company sold Trunemco nematode management seed treatment to Nufarm. It also sold the Clearfield canola production system in the U.S. and Canada to Corteva Agriscience, the agriculture division of DowDuPont.

In this undated file photo, winter wheat remains dormant while waiting for a warm-up. Canadian farmers face delays too.
Late Spring Puts Freeze on Canada Seed Sales

The seemingly endless winter that swept through Canada’s Prairies prompted farmers to put their seed and fertilizer purchases on ice.