Uruguay-Canola Harvest

Global Farmer Network member Gabriel Carballal from Uruguay, Sudamerica, shows us the size of the canola seed and how the canola field is harvested. The grain is so small that while harvesting some of the grain is lost. You can see the valuable residue left in the field.

Gabriel Carballal

Gabriel Carballal is an agronomist and a ‘farmer with no farm’, growing winter crops of wheat, orzu, canola oil, avena, grass seed and summer crops of soybean, di granu, and sorghum on 1,500 personally leased hectares with additional hectares in partnership with his family and two different societies in Uruguay. Carballal volunteers as a board member for the Global Farmer Network. Gabriel has been recognized by the GFN as a 2021 Kleckner Award for Global Farm Leadership award recipient.