SASKATOON, SK (May 11, 2017) – Ag-West Bio, Saskatchewan’s bioscience industry association, has approved a $300,000 investment in Smart Earth Seeds, a vertically-integrated plant breeding company developing high-omega meal and oil products derived from its proprietary camelina genetics platform. Camelina offers special promise as a sustainable source of the essential fatty acid ALA (an omega 3 fatty acid) as ...
SASKATOON Nov 3, 2016 – Smart Earth Seeds is pleased to announce that Omega-3 boosting Camelina meal has been approved for listing in Schedule 4 of the Feeds Act in Canada as feedstuff for egg-laying hens. Smart Earth Seeds is the leading global Camelina enterprise that has been working to develop Camelina as a novel rotational oilseed crop in Western ...
SASKATOON, Sask, JUNE 20, 2016 – Two experimental trials are underway at the University of Saskatchewan to assess Camelina as a high-value feedstock for dairy animal diets. Eight Holsteins will consume nearly five tonnes of Camelina meal to see if various inclusions will produce volumes of fine-tasting milk with healthy Omega3-type nutrients. Rex Newkirk, Chair of Food Processing ...
Establishment Benefit offered to Saskatchewan producers in 2016 SASKATOON, SK (March 3, 2016) – Smart Earth Seeds is pleased to report that Saskatchewan farmers are now entitled to an Establishment Benefit for Camelina under the provincial crop insurance program. Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation has included Camelina among crops that qualify for an Establishment Benefit under the 2016 insurance provisions. “An ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Linnaeus Plant Sciences Joins EU Consortium – Incorporates Dutch BVAffiliate Smart Earth Seeds expands global Camelina production SASKATOON (April 22) – Linnaeus Plant Sciences, the leading global Camelina enterprise, announces the formation of Linnaeus Plant Sciences BV, headquartered in Wageningen, The Netherlands. This incorporation will allow Linnaeus to join a group of eighteen EU-based partners, of which ...
SASKATOON – Jan. 12, 2015 – Smart Earth Seeds is pleased to announce that Camelina meal has been approved for the first time in Canada for use in broiler chicken feed. Smart Earth Seeds is the leading global Camelina enterprise and has been working to develop Camelina as a valuable new oilseed rotation crop in Western Canada. Thanks to the ...
