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Early weed control is an important step in profitable canola production. Research on preseed weed control showed that early seeding was less important to yield than early weed control. Pre-seed weed control will manage weeds that emerge ahead of seeding, reducing crop competition for light, moisture and nutrients…
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Applying a burnoff after seeding but before emergence is a risky option for those who want to get seeding. Consider the following risks with this practice…
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While checking your seeding depth, take a look for cutworms at the same time. Another good time to look is around bare patches that show up after emergence. Cutworms could be the cause. Entomologists from across the Prairies are conducting cutworms surveys and are looking for help digging them up…
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Good soil moisture may encourage some growers to increase planned nutrient rates to capture an increase in yield potential. However, before increasing fertilizer rates, you may want to make sure you can get timely delivery of that extra fertilizer. Talk to your supplier. You don’t want to run out of fertilizer and still have 15% of the crop to seed…
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UCC 2014 at CMCDC is a canola production trial intended to showcase three styles of input/cost management. Each treatment will have different cost of production budgets to work with, reflecting corresponding yield goals and a set selling price of the canola. A “winner” will be determined at the end of the season based on return on investment (ROI). The photo…
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The top four canola management messages for this week are: Weed out volunteers, perennials and winter annuals. Pre-seed is a profitable time to control weeds ahead of canola. Seed right the first time. Uniform canola crops with 7 to 10 plants per sq ft can yield more and have lower protection costs. Knock off clubrooty mud. Moist soil clinging to…
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This map shows accummulated moisture across the Prairies for the 30 days from April 6 to May 5. Topsoil moisture is generally good across the Prairies. Moist soil is more likely to get picked up by seeding and spraying equipment and carried field to field, spreading clubroot as well as other diseases and weed seeds and whatever else might be…
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Can you go four for four? Here are the questions: 1. One gram of soil, less a sugar cube’s worth, from a heavily clubroot-infested field could have how many clubroot spores? 2. Considering the answer to question 1, how many canola plants could be infected with clubroot if that one gram of heavily infested soil was sprinkled over an entire…
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Research shows that a pre-seed burnoff will result in higher yields versus no pre-seed burnoff. Walk fields to see what weeds are present and how fast they’re advancing. Seeding can begin fairly soon after a burnoff…
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