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Diseases are usually easiest to see and diagnose at this stage of the season. The photo shows blackleg in a clipped canola stem. Patches of dying or prematurely-ripening plants are obvious areas to scout (and show up really well with drone images), but even clean-looking fields can provide some early warning if you take time to look…
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This is what a 5 bu./ac. loss looks like. There's nothing to see. That's why you need to follow these steps to find out how much you're really throwing over…
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Straight-combining canola can be made easier with a pre-harvest herbicide. Here are the options: glyphosate, Heat LQ/glyphosate and Reglone (diquat)…
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Here are factors that create the ideal situation for straight combining canola…
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Test your diamondback management skills with these four questions…
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Diamondback moth larvae have been found in canola fields across the Prairies this year. Of those fields with the larvae, counts in many (perhaps most) are below and often well below thresholds. Some fields are at thresholds. Some fields seem to be well above thresholds. The key is to the check each field. Diamondback larvae can vary in number from…
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Bertha armyworm adult moth counts were generally low across the Prairies in 2017. A few trap sites did enter the moderate risk level, but none was high. See provincial counts in the Prairie Pest Monitoring Network blog. However, as experienced with diamondback moth trap counts this year, egg survival could be higher in dry conditions and warm weather will promote…
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In dry conditions, existing lygus threshold tables are still appropriate when making spray decisions. These tables indicate that if canola at the pod ripening stage is $12 per bushel and spray costs $12 per acre, the threshold is 11 lygus adults or late instar nymphs per 10 sweeps (~1 per sweep)…
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Butterflies have siphoning mouth parts, much like a straw. They are harmless to crops and may actually provide some pollination benefit. Butterfly larvae from these three species will feed on crops, but are not major pests of canola and rarely cause enough damage to warrant a spray…
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