MORRIS, Minn. — The oilseed crop plots at the USDA-ARS North Central Soil Conservation Lab's Swan Lake Research Farm are alive in more ways than one. Researchers at the Morris-based lab are not only ...

The production of oilseed crops, including species such as camelina, canola, and winter oilseed rape, is increasingly pivotal to meeting global demands for renewable biofuels, food, and industrial ...

Researchers have successfully developed a new oilseed crop that is much more resistant to heat, drought and diseases than oilseed rape. University of Copenhagen and the global player Bayer CropScience ...

Cargill has awarded $2.5 million to the Forever Green Initiative to support research into two novel oilseed crops — winter camelina and domesticated pennycress. The five-year grant will accelerate ...

Research published recently in Current Biology points towards at least one upside of climate change: some agricultural crops will have longer growing seasons, resulting in increased productivity. The ...

Lincolnshire grower Tim Lamyman has reclaimed the world record oilseed rape yield, with a staggering 7.71t/ha crop. The ...

The major oilseed crops were domesticated primarily as sources of edible oil. However, in all cases, yields of by-products are greater than the oil fraction, and, in reality, all oilseed crops serve ...

GILLETTE - Faced with high diesel prices, the ability to produce his own fuel intrigued Gillette farmer and rancher Tom Stanley. After attending a seminar on oilseed crops such as sunflower, safflower ...

PARIS, July 31 (Reuters) - Crop consultancy Strategie Grains lowered its forecast for this year's oilseed harvests in the European Union by a total of over 1 million metric tons, mainly to take ...

PAKISTAN'S edible oil import bill continues to mount, as world prices keep rising and rupee maintains its downward slide. Now it is close to staggering $3 billion, and threatens to go beyond. In its ...