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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A biochemist is studying Camelina sativa -- a nonfood oilseed crop -- to see how it can be used for biofuel or even industrial and food-related applications. A Kansas State University biochemistry ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fats and oils for food uses are now plentiful on a worldwide basis. Tallow, lard and fish oils, as well as vegetable oils, such as those derived from soybean, sunflower, palm, rapeseed, peanut and ...

The CME Group today announced plans to implement variable price limits for grain and oilseed futures and eliminate price limits on grain and oilseed options. Product impacted include corn, soybeans, ...