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1. Take part in the Ultimate Canola Challenge. 2. AAFC Brandon is testing pest management practices and habitat enhancement practices that may impact native pollinators. 3. Insect specialists are looking for canola fields to validate economic thresholds for lygus and flea beetles. 4. The University of Calgary and the Alberta Canola seek help in a large project aimed at determining…
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AAFC has published a new cutworm guide, available as a free download, with descriptions of all pest cutworms in Canada as well as helpful management tips, including this excerpt from the scouting section…
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Make sure soil is cleaned off any used equipment recently purchased from areas known to have clubroot. This is good biosecurity practice. Ideally, this should be done at the purchase location before bringing it home…
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Got a question about blackleg? Anything at all? You'll find the answer at the CCC's new blackleg.ca webpage… -
CCC agronomists are getting three common questions this week... 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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The Canola Council of Canada and the provincial canola grower organizations hosted canoLABs at Regina, Sask., Vermilion, Alta., and Dauphin, Man., earlier this year. Here are the top canoLAB messages for growers and agronomists to consider through 2017… -
1. Get the drill ready 2. Watch the Canola Stand Establishment video 3. See how much seed you'll need at canolacalculator.ca 4. Scout for overwintered weeds 5. Check the residue situation 6. Re-assess clubroot 7. Manage ruts 8. Consider check strips 9. Put together a scouting toolkit 10. Test soils…
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The new target plant stand and seeding rate calculators at canolacalculator.ca will help determine the correct plant stand for an individual field… -
Using the same disease resistance genetics over and over causes a shift in pathogen population, which can then overcome the resistance in our varieties – similar to herbicide resistance in weeds. Knowing the resistance genetics used in previous years will allow growers to rotate to a different resistance gene and reduce the blackleg infection within a field. As many as…