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A number of hail storms in Alberta earlier in the season have resulted in regrowth at the top of the plant. This regrowth is now considerably late and it is……
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Practice leads to perfect. Growers who successfully straight combine say that experience leads to success. If straight combining for the first time in 2011, be sure to start on a small number of acres. This will allow for some experimentation to determine how to make it work with an individual’s equipment. Choose suitable fields. Fields that make good candidates for…
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With uneven maturity and later canola crops, this will be another year to watch green counts. Here are some tips to follow when testing for green seed: Rather than start up the combine to take a sample, insert a scoop shovel underneath the swath and use your hands to thresh pods near ground level into the shovel. These plants will…
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Combining has begun in some areas and high temperatures are predicted across the west in the coming days. It is important to remember that canola storage can be a concern……
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Malathion CANNOT be used to treat bins where canola will be stored or to treat canola as it goes into storage. These applications can result in residues in the canola……
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Lygus populations continue to be high and exceed thresholds in parts of Alberta and Manitoba. Many young nymphs are being found and crops are nearing the end of the susceptible stage so management decisions are being made on a field-by-field basis. Pay attention to pre-harvest intervals (time between application and cutting) this late in the growing season. Once a crop…
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Peace: Crop is progressing nicely. Rainfall for the week ranged from a couple of tenths to an inch in the east. Crops continue to deteriorate (rotting) in the west. Swathing is about three weeks to a month away. Alberta: Warm weather over the past week…
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Quite high populations of lygus are being found in parts of the Peace and southern and central Alberta (finding as many as 80 lygus per 10 sweeps with approximately 25 to 30% of those being adults with the remainder a range of instar stages). Sweep net results also seem to be variable…
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Bertha armyworm can be found in most fields in the central Peace with about 25% of the fields exceeding threshold and requiring spraying (around Lacrete and Fort Vermillion). Spraying is also happening in pockets in eastern Saskatchewan (south of highway 16 and east of highway 11) and in northern areas around Delisle and North Battleford…
