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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a major step forward for sustainable pigment production, scientists have successfully engineered the oilseed crop Camelina sativa to produce high levels of astaxanthin—a valuable red antioxidant ...

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 ...

In a major step forward for sustainable pigment production, scientists have successfully engineered the oilseed crop Camelina sativa to produce high levels of astaxanthin — a valuable red antioxidant ...

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 ...

PARIS, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Consultancy Strategie Grains has further lowered its outlook for this year's rapeseed, sunflower seed and soybean harvests in the European Union, tightening expected oilseed ...