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 ...