Syngenta Seeds has entered into an agreement with Sustainable Oils, Inc., to provide farmers in parts of Kansas, Colorado and further west the opportunity to grow camelina, an oilseed-based crop, ...

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 ...

Wayzata-based agribusiness giant Cargill is giving the University of Minnesota $2.5 million to study a pair of crops that could become transportation fuels of the future. On Monday, the U of M said it ...

Biofuels refined from the fats and oils from certain seed crops offer a compelling alternative to fossil fuels—and electric batteries, too.

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 ...

URBANA, Ill. -- Long considered a weed in North America, Camelina sativa is increasingly valued as an oilseed crop. Researchers at the University of Illinois are now studying its nutritional value ...

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 ...

Canola futures on the Intercontinental Exchange continued to move lower on Thursday after Statistics Canada released its latest principal field crop estimates earlier in the day. StatCan reported a ...

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 weather has got cold enough to put the propyzamide on the oilseed rape, which eventually should have a welcome effect on ...