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The new Canola Calculator has two tools to help growers set seeding rates and plant stands that match seed size, risk factors and estimated seed survival…
Canola Watch Posts
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We'd like to know how spring-harvested canola worked out for you. Please take a moment to share your experiences and provide Canola Watch some feedback. Thank you…
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Canola combined this spring has been coming off dry and cool. Should it go on aeration?…
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Those same moist fields that have delayed spring harvest as well as seeding in central Alberta (and some other regions) also mean more mud clinging to equipment. More mud means more clubroot spores riding along on tires and equipment frames. Though the time crunch is on, knocking off as much mud as possible will reduce clubroot spread. In these conditions,…
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Many areas of the Prairies — particularly central and north regions — are at least one to two weeks away from seeding. This would put seeding at mid to late May. Those dates are still good for yield potential and are within crop insurance deadlines… -
Alberta still has close to one million unharvested acres as of this week. Saskatchewan and Manitoba also have unharvested acres. Here are some considerations for those acres… -
CCC agronomists are getting three common questions with regard to wet fields and unharvested. They are: 1. What if I plant canola on canola acres that are still not harvested? 2. What can we expect for seed mortality in excessively wet soils? 3. What to do about ruts?…
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By early May, soil temperature at 1” depth — the canola seed zone — often exceeds this temperature during the day and should get continually warmer with each day. For this reason, soil temperature in May is less of a factor in the seeding-start decision than it would be in April… -
The new target plant stand and seeding rate calculators at canolacalculator.ca will help determine the correct plant stand for an individual field…