Canada: Canola production numbers are released

It’s been an information-packed week for participants taking in the Canola Industry Meetings in Saskatoon. During the event Oilseed Specialist Cory Jacob gave a prairie-wide overview of the 2022 canola crop. In Alberta, producers seeded 6.5 million acres to canola, about a 2.5 per cent decrease from 2021 and about a 1.1 per cent increase from the five-year average. He says on average farmers brought in 41.7 bushel yield, which is 44.1 per cent above 2021’s drought and about 8.7 percent above the five-year average. Alberta reported about 6 million metric tons of production, which is about 31.9 per cent of Canada’s canola production. A 40.3 per cent increase from 2021 and about 10 per cent above the five-year average. In Saskatchewan, farmers seeded about 11.3 million acres of canola, down about 4.9 per cent from 2021 and down 5.3 per cent from the five-year average. The average yield was about 37.8 bushels an acre about 51 per cent above the yield recorded during the drought of ...