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Camelina Oil or Fish Oil…What is the difference? Written by: Christine Walsh Published on: Nov 24 2021 We get asked a lot about the difference between Camelina Oil and Fish Oil for adding omega fatty acids into your dog’s diet, so we thought it would be useful if we provided you with a short overview to help support you in your search for the perfect supplement for your furry friends. What are the three main omega 3 fatty acids? A quick review of some basics first. The three main omega 3 fatty acids are alpha linolenic acid (ALA), eicosapentaenoic acid...

How to pick the perfect omega balance for your horse Written by: Jenna Tranter Published on: 11/16/2021 You’ve decided to supplement your horse with omegas and oils and at the surface it seems like a pretty easy task. Any oil should be okay right? The omega balance of an oil, coupled with the way it’s processed, and oxidative stability all play a major role in the overall health of your horse. So what makes an oil better than another? Let’s have a look at some of the frequently used oils for horses and some of the newer options, like coconut...

How Camelina Oil plays an important role in Carlene's breeding program Submitted by: Carlene Sarvas Published on: 10/31/2021 "My name is Carlene Sarvas, I have bred English Springers Spaniels since 2004. I supplement with Smart Earth Camelina oil at all times and all stages of my pack's lives. It is my belief that since introducing camelina oil over 7years ago into our daily routine, my dams have whelped larger, more even litters. In studies, I have read that Omega 3s have been shown to improve fertility and to be beneficial in developing fetuses.""I believe I have witnessed these benefits in...

Andy Leblanc's Video Review Submitted by: Andy Leblanc Published on: 10/12/2021 "Good morning Smart Earth Camelina Oil for Equine fans." "This is our boy, 18 year old, Peruvian Paso, El Gaupo. He was having trouble moving around. His coat was dull. Now, look at it. You can see it shine this early in the morning. He's eating his breakfast and the Camelina oil is on top of it." "My name is Andy Leblanc, I live in Louisiana, near New Roads. I appreciate Camelina oil a great bit. It's helped all three of our horses, Gaupo, Cassie, and you can see...

Omega 3 Supplementation & Cushings in Dogs By Christine Walsh | September 24th 2021 Over the last few months, you’ve noticed some changes in your dog. He is drinking more, needing more frequent pee breaks has noticeable hair loss…and is that a pot belly starting to show? Nothing has changed with their diet or program, so you're not sure what's happening with your pet. You call your trusted vet and they run a series of tests. Unfortunately, the results come back that your loved pet has Cushing’s disease (CD) or ‘hyperadrenocorticism’. The reality is that it takes upwards of 1...

Kim Eastman's Camelina Success Story September 22nd, 2021 Mary's testimonial can be read in it's entirety below... "Smart Earth Camelina Oil was introduced to my family because of this handsome boy right here. Bud and I have been together for 23 years. I am estimating his age to be roughly between 27 and 30. When his health started to deteriorate this winter, my neighbor recommended trying Smart Earth Camelina Oil. The results have been absolutely amazing. He trots up to the gate to meet me again. His breathing is better and his joints don't seem as stiff. He started feeling...

"Make Your Dogs Puppies Again" - Mary's Endorsement August 19th, 2021 Mary's testimonial can be read in it's entirety below... "This is Mocha and Charming. They're both almost eight years old. They started taking the camelina oil, bought them maybe a month and a half ago. My husband asked me if I was giving them anything different? And I says, "Oh, I haven't changed their food." And I asked, "Why?" And he says, "Well, when Mocha was getting up in the truck in the bed, she was having a real hard time jumping up and he had to help her."...

Karen Sheehan Recommended - "So much better than the Corn Oil" August 10th, 2021 Karen's story can be read in it's entirety below... "Hi, my name is Karen Sheehan, and I live in Haymarket, Virginia. This is Tempered Steel. He's a 31 year old Anglo-Arab. I've had him since he was seven years old. He's one of seven horses that we have. He's my first and he's the oldest. The last year and a half he's been having trouble keeping weight on. He's not eating as much hay as all the rest of the horses. So I've tried him out...

Rybecca Panchuk - A Smart Earth Featured Rider June 22nd, 2021 Rybecca's & Christine's full interview can be read in it's entirety below... Christine Walsh: Well hello, Rybecca. Thanks for being here with me today. Rybecca Panchuk: Hello, how are you? Christine Walsh: I'm good, good! Everybody, I'm Christine Walsh. I'm the director of Companion Animal Products over at Smart Earth Camelina, and I have a very special guest today. She is our featured rider. Her name is Rybecca Panchuk. And Rybecca, she is kind of a jack of all trades. She does rodeo, team roping, breakaway, barrel racing, and...

Graze on Grass Equine Founder Nancy Findlay's Endorsement June 11th, 2021 The full endorsement can be read below... Nancy: Hi, my name is Nancy Findlay and my husband and I are owners and operators of Graze on Grass Equine near Markdale, Ontario. I discovered Smart Earth camelina oil in the spring and I put two geriatric, underweight, older pertrons on it and they bloomed, they blossomed. I thought, "Well, this is good stuff." Then I read more about it, about the hyper allergic reaction that our horses were having and having great success with the camelina oil, which is what...

University of Guelph Research Study May 21st, 2021 The full interview can be read below... Kate Shoveller: My name is Kate Shoveller, and I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Bio-sciences. I obtained my undergraduate degree in Animal Biology from the University of Guelph and my PhD from the University of Alberta. I've spent time in government, in the pet food industry, and I'm now an academic at the University of Guelph. What brought me to this research was most companion animal and equine nutritionists, while we would love to focus on only a few things, we tend...

Caroline's Story: How Camelina Oil Helped Put Weight on Her Underweight Horse May 11th 2021 "Hello Smart Earth Camelina Oil Company!! I honestly cannot believe that I am writing to you about how well my horse is doing since I have been giving him Camelina Oil. A year ago, this May, my horse had a very bad ulcer colic. I really thought that this was it and would have to put him down. He finally pulled through, minus 200-250 pounds, putting him at a 2 on the condition scoring chart (he was already thin and had no weight to spare)....

"Hi. I'm Alan from Fernrigg Farm, here in British Columbia, Canada. And I just added some Smart Earth Camelina Oil to our horses' food. We use Smart Earth camelina oil because it improves the health of our horses' joints, hooves, and coats. So let's go meet one of the horses that has benefited from our use of Smart Earth camelina oil." "Of all the horses here at the farm, none needed the benefits of camelina oil more than Feather. Just eight months ago, Feather was dangerously thin and weak. Veterinary experts advised that she would likely not make it through...

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"Hi there. My name is Adrienne. I'm involved in equine and canine rehab. We've been using the Smart Earth Camelina Oil for our horses for several years and when I got a dog with hip dysplasia in, I knew that that was something I wanted to get him on. And since we've started it, he's had huge improvement with his discomfort levels. He's able to run again, he's playing with the other dogs and he's finally able to act his age and he's a young dog. So, that's really nice to see." "We have another dog here who has horrible...

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Why Your Horse is Lacking Omega 3 Fats, What That Means For Your Horse, And What You Should Do About it.   5 Gift Ideas for the Horse Lover in your Life   There's Never Been a Better Time to Start Supplementing Your Horse's Diet with Camelina Oil. Christmas is right around the corner, are you looking for gift ideas? You've come to the right place! 1. Hoof Doctor (From $36.99) Hoof Doctor is a unique product based on Birch Bark Extract with Organic Oils, including Omega 3, Vitamins A & D. It is not cosmetics, but a real premium...

Sherie's Story: How she got her Rock Star back thanks to Camelina Oil 26 Oct - Adam Grushcow Sherie's story has really touched all of us here at Smart Earth and we just had to share it with our Farmily! Sherie's horse Stasia, had been dealing with a significant health crisis. Having been diagnosed with Cushings, she was also dealing with hypersensitive skin reactions, swelling, hives, changes in mood and excessive sweating. She had been feeding her horse Flax Seed Oil for years to no avail.   All Sherie wanted was to have her rock star back...so she turned to...

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Smart Earth Camelina Corp executives were present this week at Aquaculture America 2020 - the National Conference & Exposition of the USA National Aquaculture Association and World Aquaculture Society meetings in Hawaii. Smart Earth CEO Jack Grushcow and General manager Mike Cey met with aquaculture experts to demonstrate the viability of Camelina oil as a replacement for fish oil in the aquaculture industry. Camelina holds special appeal for the aquaculture industry due to its unique N3 | N6 fatty acid profile. Experts have said the use of wild-sourced fish to feed farmed fish is not sustainable, either ecologically or economically....

Wondering if you could add Camelina to your crop roatation? Curious to know where camelina fits? Check out this video by Chris Thorson:     Here are a few additional notes from Chris - for you to consider if you're keen to add Camelina to your rotation:   Camelina needs to be seeded on stubble that does not have a Group 2 residual. It can replace lentil acres, flax acres, or canola acres on marginal land. "Camelina will out-produce anything I have grown on poorer soils - just don't expect 50 bu per acre on alkali! It's a low cost...

Here's an email that Chris Thorson, who farms 6,400 acres in Central Saskatchewan, sent this week to some of his friends and neighbours:"It's been a bit of a harvest from hell! The combines were sitting a lot during one of many rain or snow delays. And it seemed like as soon as we got going (usually on a Sunday) another major breakdown happened within a couple hours! It's been a long one and I still have 3000 acres on the ground! That said, my Camelina is in the bin! See below for cost of production breakdown on this years Camelina...

Smart Earth Camelina Corp. has been conventionally breeding innovative lines of the oilseed Camelina since 2005. We are experts in breeding and growing Camelina. We contract with growers across the Canadian prairies to produce our proprietary varieties of non-GMO Camelina. We have expertly bred a uniquely large seed size of Camelina to make it easier for farmers to grow and to harvest this crop, rich in health-promoting Omega3 fatty acids and high in vitamin E. We continue to focus on improving the overall Omega3/Omega6 oil profile of Camelina as well as the overall crop agronomics.Once the Camelina seed is harvested...

If your horse is always grazing in pasture you can be pretty confident they will be getting enough essential fatty acids to maintain proper health. "Essential" means fatty acids that can't be produced by the body alone and so must be absorbed via food intake. Experts agree your horse needs a balance of these fatty acids: Omega3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), and Omega6 linoleic acid (LA) - though the exact ratio hasn't been scientifically established. According to nutrition expert Dr. Juliet M. Getty if your horse is deficient, or improperly balanced in the Omegas, it can experience immune system and hormone...

Research interest in Camelina is gathering steam and genotypes developed by Smart Earth Seeds affiliate Linnaeus Plant Sciences are at the forefront of some of the most recent scientific activity in Europe. An Italian study looked at how our Canadian-developed spring varieties of Camelina responded to being planted in autumn in the more moderate Mediterranean climate. Smart Earth Seeds/Linnaeus Plant Sciences Camelina was sown on six different dates at the experimental farm of Bologna University over two consecutive growing seasons (2015-16 and 2016-17). Three experiments were also carried out in a growth chamber testing various temperatures during the seed filling...

The potential health benefits of adding more Omega-3 fatty acids to your diet has become the focus of a great deal of scientific research. This includes the role of Omega-3s in reducing heart and vascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and the neuropsychiatric pathologies of depression and anxiety, cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases.We have previously pointed to a recent study by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland that favourably compares camelina with fish oil in reducing blood cholesterol levels in humans. As well as this important ongoing Finnish work on ALA and Camelina, a team of Egyptian researchers summarized several...

Canada’s climate means horses can’t be grazing on outdoor pastures year-round. Adding Omega-3s to their diets helps to supplement their rations when they’re consuming dried hay instead of fresh grass, says a recent article in Farms.com. “It gives horses’ coats a nice glossy sheen, allows for healthy hair growth, and is good for their skin when they get itchy and dry in the winter from wearing blankets,” says Jenna Tranter of Four Corners Equestrian, who has been working with Linnaeus Plant Sciences Inc. and subsidiary Smart Earth Seeds marketing Camelina oil for the equine marketplace. “This is especially important for...

Omega3 supplements such as camelina can be helpful in reducing allergy-induced skin problems in horses, according to a recent article in The Horse magazine.The story, by equine nutrition consultant Clair Thunes, says "supplemental omega3 fat to your horse might very well help with inflammatory response being experienced due to allergies." Typically horses are fed 15 to 25 grams of camelina as a supplement, Thanes says.Thunes goes on to say that "while a horse’s natural diet of fresh grass is not particularly high in fat (2 to 4%), the fat that’s present is relatively high in omega3 fatty acids (as much...