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 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 ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s agriculture industry is looking at the oilseed crops camelina, canola and sunflowers as part of an effort to diversify farming and produce the seed stock for biofuel.

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 ...

Oilseed rape fields are home to a variety of insects that bother farmers. The pollen beetle is one of them. The beetle's larvae feed on the flower buds of oilseed rape causing damage and crop failure.

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 ...

A national seminar on “Sustainable Pathways for Scaling Oilseed Production in the Northeastern Region of India” was convened at ICAR–NRC on Mithun, Medziphema, under the aegis of ICAR Research Complex ...

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 ...