T he Western Cape is renowned for its breathtaking landscapes, and during the winter/spring months, the region transforms into a vibrant canvas of yellow canola fields. These stunning blooms ...

The Western Cape’s canola fields are a sight to behold, especially when the landscape transforms into a sea of vibrant yellow blooms. Nestled in one of South Africa’s most scenic regions ...

The Western Cape currently accounted for 99.69% of South Africa’s canola oil production. However, Anathi Oils CEO Weza Moss advised that weather conditions in the Eastern Cape were more ...

Canola is a winter crop, hence, production is primarily in the Western Cape, a winter rainfall region. The farmers intend to plant 166 500 hectares, up by 0.5% from the previous season.

“South Africa’s 2024-25 canola production is forecast at 294,000 tonnes, up 25% year-on-year, making this the largest harvest on record." Thousands of hectares are being harvested in the Cape ...

It also produces livestock, meat and dairy; and field crops like wheat, barley and canola. All need water ... For example, a third of the water in the Western Cape Water Supply System ...

Brent Dunnigan is giving new meaning to the term oilman. He drills for it, but he also grows it in the canola plants that cover wide swaths of his 7,000-acre farm in southern Saskatchewan.

In Western Australia, prices have been quoted by Cargill Australia’s Kwinanna site at $802 a tonne, but growers in that state say they will wait for an autumn break before making major sowing ...

Heavy rains in Western Australia, the country’s top grain producing state, should allow farmers to plant more canola, although the increase could come at the expense of crops like barley and wheat.

a potential catalyst for canola production in the Eastern Cape to rival that of the Western Cape. The trial will aid the development of a 500 ha commercial canola oil production drive in Alexandria, ...