Include cutworms on the scouting checklist for the first one to three weeks after emergence. Any later and management becomes more difficult because (i) spraying a registered insecticide is useless because the cutworms have developed beyond the feeding stage, and/or (ii) reseeding options are starting to be limited…
Canola Watch Posts
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Factors that affect herbicide carryover are herbicide group, field history, soil characteristics, dry conditions and temperature…
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At Alberta canolaPALOOZA, June 27 at Lacombe, farmer Brian Tischler will demonstrate his AgraBot. The DIY autonomous tractor uses free and open source software called AgOpenGPS. At canolaPALOOZA, Tischler will show how to set up a field and then send the tractor to complete the field on its own…
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A quick quiz to test spraying windows, inversions and timing…
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Early-seeded and slow-growing canola crops (usually due to dry conditions) have faced more flea beetle pressure this year, particularly in Manitoba and central Alberta. Flea beetle emergence tended to occur before most canola crops had emerged, so flea beetles concentrated on the earliest fields. And because topsoil moisture levels were fairly low, these canola plants were growing very slowly. Concentrated…
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