Minimize Your Risk with Winter Canola

Financial security

• There’s a path to market for your crop, thanks to the unique collaboration between Pioneer and Bunge Chevron Ag Renewables.
• Multiple contract options to mitigate risk on enrolled acres.
• Federal crop insurance protects your canola fields (for qualified participants).
• The partnership and commitment from Pioneer and Bunge Chevron Ag Renewables can help to provide market stability for farmers.
• Your harvest is sold at a competitive price.
• Don’t worry about grain storage — Bunge will take immediate delivery of all winter canola production once the crop is harvested.

Agronomic support

Pioneer provides local agronomic support for winter canola from planting through harvest.

Market support

Bunge provides logistical support and handles all contracts, tickets, checks, and communications locally, giving farmers a local representative to call at any point from contract to delivery. This allows farmers to keep their focus on winter canola crop production and manage risk with multiple pricing alternatives.

Better soil health

• Including winter canola in a double-cropping rotation enhances soil health by retaining more nutrients, water, and carbon in the earth.
• The brassica root structure of the canola plant helps break up soil compaction.
• Adding another crop to the rotation can improve yields.

Return on crop investment

• Thanks to the increasing demand for biofuels, growing winter canola provides farmers with a diversified revenue stream and more potential opportunities for a return on crop investment without sacrificing food production.
• The high oil content of Pioneer winter canola hybrids has the potential to generate increased return on farmers’ investment.

High yields

Using elite plant genetics, Pioneer created the winter canola hybrids specifically for the Mid-South to deliver industry-leading yield potential and consistent oil content across a range of growing conditions.

Disease resistance

Pioneer brand winter canola hybrids offer unmatched resistance to:

• Blackleg
• Clubroot
• Sclerotinia

Reduced pressure from pests

The crop diversity that winter canola offers helps break up pest management cycles, reducing pest pressure naturally.

No interruption to your planting and harvesting cycle

• Winter canola fits into current cropping systems and follows traditional timing of winter wheat crop rotations.
• Generally, canola tends to mature faster than wheat, which can allow farmers to plant spring crops earlier and improve yield potential.
• Canola leaves less residue in the field than wheat, which makes no-till planting of summer crops easier.

Time-tested crop

Winter canola has been a profitable rotation crop for European farmers, and field tests have proven that it can have the same result for Mid-South farmers.