The deal is said to be good until the year 2020.

Canada and China have finally reached an agreement that will see canola exports continue as they are.

Brett Halstead, farms at Nokomis and is President of the Canadian Canola Growers Association.

"It's a science-based agreement that will run until 2020 and there will be no changes on the dockage.

We have done studies here in Canada that shows the risk of transmitting blackleg through dockage is extremely low - that's what we mean by 'science-based'," he said.

The President of the Canadian Canola Growers Association is pleased with the news that Canadian canola can continue to be exported into China.

Halstead says this is key news, as China is a major customer:

"What China is proposing to do is have a government-mandated 1% limit on dockage which is lower than anywhere else in the world. In fact, nowhere in the world is lower than 2.5%.

So right now, that would be very difficult for the Canadian industry to meet on the volume of canola that we send to China," he said.

Canada is the world's largest exporter of canola with over 40 per cent exported into China.