CCGA Offering Cash Advances

Oct 30, 2018

Getting this year’s crop off the field and into the bin has been a challenge.

Dave Gallant with the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA) says the cash advance program is one option that can help producers manage their cash flow.

"We've had a lot of farmers who have been impacted by inclement weather, snow, and the CCGA is supporting those farmers by allowing them, if they need to, to take out an advance on grain that's still in the field at this time of the year to give them cash flow to help them get through this season."

Under the program, 45 different commodities, including all major field crops and livestock are eligible.

Producers can apply for a cash advance of up to $400,000, the first $100,000 of which is interest free.

Source : Steinbachonline

Video: Seeing the Whole Season: How Continuous Crop Modeling Is Changing Breeding

Plant breeding has long been shaped by snapshots. A walk through a plot. A single set of notes. A yield check at the end of the season. But crops do not grow in moments. They change every day.

In this conversation, Gary Nijak of AerialPLOT explains how continuous crop modeling is changing the way breeders see, measure, and select plants by capturing growth, stress, and recovery across the entire season, not just at isolated points in time.

Nijak breaks down why point-in-time observations can miss critical performance signals, how repeated, season-long data collection removes the human bottleneck in breeding, and what becomes possible when every plot is treated as a living data set. He also explores how continuous modeling allows breeding programs to move beyond vague descriptors and toward measurable, repeatable insights that connect directly to on-farm outcomes.

This conversation explores:

• What continuous crop modeling is and how it works

• Why traditional field observations fall short over a full growing season

• How scale and repeated measurement change breeding decisions

• What “digital twins” of plots mean for selection and performance

• Why data, not hardware, is driving the next shift in breeding innovation As data-driven breeding moves from research into real-world programs, this discussion offers a clear look at how seeing the whole season is reshaping value for breeders, seed companies, and farmers, and why this may be only the beginning.