THUNDER BAY -- Experts at the Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Station are promoting canola to local producers as a beneficial cash crop to add to their yearly rotations.
Farmer John Hanna says a really good crop is growing this year, and he only started planting canola a few years ago.
“It’s generated good income for us,” Hanna said during an interview with CKPR Radio Monday. “It’s a good rotational crop that’s genetically modified and we can use some herbicides on it that we can’t use on other crops.
"It makes a nice high yielding, high value crop for us.”
Hanna estimates after years of expansion, a quarter of his land is now used to grow canola.
(CKPR Radio)
