11-8 IAT Canola
Jack Brown, professor in the University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences recently told me about a crushing for canola. “ The farmers are getting 4000 pounds and are returning $1000 per acre on a rotational crop that is beneficial to potatoes. We do have a major crushing facility in the Pacific NorthWest, in the state of Washington, for the 1st time ever. This plant has the potential to crush 350,000 acres of canola per year. That assumes that it is 350,000 acres of good canola not bad canola. I believe Pacific Coast Canola are striving to produce most of the seed that they crush and their plant for oil as well as seed meal. They are looking for local production and local production includes Idaho. Having a demand in the area to suck up more canola than we have ever produced will make a sizable impact begin to and will sustain and oil seed program in the Pacific Northwest.”
