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If the tissue underneath the bite is still living, the seedling will likely survive as long as (1) the stem can still bear the weight of the cotyledons and first leaves, (2) the stem is not to subjected to more feeding, and (3) weather conditions are good for plant growth…
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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…
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Factors that affect herbicide carryover are herbicide group, field history, soil characteristics, dry conditions and temperature…
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Early season hail rarely has an impact on canola yield potential. Hailed seedlings usually come back very well. Even when individual plants die, a whole canola crop is fairly resilient to early season hail when it comes to overall yield potential…
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Photographs can be a valuable diagnostic tool, but they have to be in focus, taken from various angles and come with details on field conditions and location…
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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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Up until yesterday, many parts of Alberta and Western Saskatchewan hadn't received much rain over the past week. The Eastern Prairies got more. Rain events continue today in some areas…
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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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