News

Alice McFarlane writes in Farm News Now how hotter, drier conditions across the Prairies are changing Canadian mustard seeds.

Kevin Hursh writes in the Western Producer about Invigor Gold, and the potential effects on Canada’s condiment mustard industry.

Robert Arnason with the Western Producer interviews Rick Mitzel about the new canola hybrid and the risk of GMO contamination.

Kevin Hursh of SaskAgToday spoke with Rick Mitzel, the executive director of Sask Mustard as well as the producer and industry group known as Mustard 21.

Mustard 21 attended Ag in Motion, July 15 to 17, 2025. Demonstration plots included AAC Yellow 80, AAC Brown Elite, and AAC Guard mustard varieties.

See the progress of AAC Guard biofumigation for verticillium control at Bylands Garden Centre in Kelowna BC.

CBC radio talks with Rick Mitzel, executive director of Sask Mustard, on what effect the trade war with the United States is having on Saskatchewan’s mustard industry.

Vineland Research and Innovation has produced a guide for growing mustard as a biofumigant cover crop in Ontario.

If you missed the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission’s Annual General Meeting January 16, 2025, download the presentations here.

When Bayer recently announced its Buteo Start seed treatment for flea beetles would be available for mustard seed, mustard farmers welcomed the news.

Canadian mustard growers now have access to a flea beetle control tool that was previously the purview of canola.

This field of AAC Yellow 80 mustard harvested in late August had an average yield of 23 bu per acre on 660 acres of dryland production.