Canola Watch Posts

  • Growers in the short-season zone will consider days to maturity (DTM) of a variety. Those in counties with clubroot should strongly consider a clubroot resistant variety. Queries on the Canola Performance Trials website can help growers consider these and many other factors when selecting a variety…
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  • Weather conditions are rarely the same two years in a row. That is why making decisions based on the snow-extended harvest of 2016 may not be the best economic choice for 2017. For example, seeding a short-season variety in April to avoid another potential September snow fall may not match up with the most probable growing conditions and profitable decisions…
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  • Each Prairie province does its own disease survey most years. The Manitoba Canola Disease Survey has been happening for over 15 years and tracks a variety of diseases. Alberta’s survey the past few years has mainly been focused around monitoring the spread of clubroot. Blackleg results are based on prevalence, incidence and severity — but what do these words mean?…
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  • We’re putting together some tips on managing ruts and expectations for canola left out all winter. These will be posted in the February or March Canola Watch. Do you have tips on ruts management, combining over-wintered canola and crop insurance strategies for over-wintered canola? Share them with us by email to whetterj@canolacouncil.org or through Twitter to @CanolaWatch…
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