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Canola in crosshairs Canada is among the world’s top producers of canola — an oilseed crop that is used to make cooking oil, animal feed and biodiesel fuel — and China has historically been one of its largest customers.
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Kristine Gill, Fortune Asia, 3 Sep. 2024
But before the sustainable possibilities can flourish, farmers need to know if the muscular, intermediate oilseed can actually grow during the region’s notoriously cold winters and mild springs.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
Beginning in 2016, Forever Green started breeding oilseeds — including camelina, which is a member of the mustard family and native to the Mediterranean — for use in a relay-cropping system with soybeans.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
An enormous structural problem in the agri-food system is that demand for grains and oilseeds for biofuels, and especially for animal feed, has grown far faster than the demand for food.
—Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2022
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Kristine Gill, Fortune Asia, 3 Sep. 2024
But before the sustainable possibilities can flourish, farmers need to know if the muscular, intermediate oilseed can actually grow during the region’s notoriously cold winters and mild springs.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
Beginning in 2016, Forever Green started breeding oilseeds — including camelina, which is a member of the mustard family and native to the Mediterranean — for use in a relay-cropping system with soybeans.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
An enormous structural problem in the agri-food system is that demand for grains and oilseeds for biofuels, and especially for animal feed, has grown far faster than the demand for food.
—Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2022
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“Oilseed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oilseed. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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oilseed
noun
oil·seed
ˈȯi(ə)l-ˌsēd 
: a seed or crop (as flaxseed) grown mainly for the oil obtained from it
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