Canola Ink
November 10, 2008
In This Issue
CanolaInfo Cooks Videos Win Best of CAMA Award
New Smart Choices Label to Appear on Food Products in 2009
Food Network Dietician Calls for Canola Oil
Saskatchewan Canola Growers Association Names New Chief
Canola: Oil, Biodiesel, Matchmaker?
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CanolaInfo Cooks Videos Win Best of CAMA Award
What’s cookin’? CanolaInfo’s "farm to fork" videos about canola, which are hot, hot, hot, according to the Canadian Agri-Marketing Association (CAMA). The video series won first place in the "Video or Interactive Multi-Media Targeted to External Audiences" category of the "Best of CAMA" awards. The videos were produced by BCG Communications and the award presented in Quebec City on Nov. 6. CAMA awards recognize the best agriculture-related communications in Canada.
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New Smart Choices Label to Appear on Food Products in 2009
Major food makers just unveiled a new Smart Choices label that will provide nutritional information on the front of food packages. It was designed to help people make smarter food choices and improve public health by calling attention to products that meet certain nutritional criteria. The voluntary label will list a product’s calories per serving and number of servings. It is slated to appear on products from companies like Kraft Foods, General Mills, Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo as of mid-2009. Canola oil will be eligible for the logo because of it is low in saturated fat and free of trans fat and cholesterol.
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Food Network Dietician Calls for Canola Oil
Canola oil has gotten the stamp of approval from a registered dietician in the debut November/December 2008 issue of Food Network magazine. In her "Ask Ellie" section, Ellie Krieger, R.D., host of Food TV's "Healthy Appetite," gives a healthy recipe for oven-baked French fries that call for canola oil.
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Saskatchewan Canola Growers Association Names New Chief
Wayne Thompson was named the new executive director of the Saskatchewan Canola Growers Association. He most recently served as an agricultural economist for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, where he dealt with farm income, biofuels and crop pricing analysis. Thompson was raised on a farm near Carnduff, Sask., and obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees in agricultural economics at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Canola: Oil, Biodiesel, Matchmaker?
Jeff Skulmonski, a canola farmer in Saskatchewan, used his canola field for more than just harvesting ... he used it to propose to his girlfriend. Skulmonski spent five hours carving out the words "Jeannie will you marry me?" into his canola field with his tractor. Each letter was about 66 meters in length and Skulmonski had his friend take the couple in his airplane to show it to her. She said "yes" and the couple plans to marry in April.
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