Flea beetle spraying continues in Manitoba where crops are advancing slowly due to excess rain and limited warmth. Redbacked cutworms are still causing severe damage in southern Alberta. Some sprayed fields need to be reseeded…
Canola Watch Posts
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Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialists will be involved in the upcoming tours and events…
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Cleaning out the sprayer protects a sensitive crop, it protects people working with the sprayer, and it protects the sprayer and its components. The following article by AAFC's Tom Wolf provides some handy tips…
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Weed control is top of mind for most growers. Many will finish their first in-crop herbicide pass this week, weather permitting. Insects are a close second to weeds. Flea beetles……
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Peace (B.C. and Alberta): The entire region could do with an inch of rain and some heat. Many fields have spotty emergence, and with cool, dry weather, many canola crops……
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Spraying has been required in pockets all across the Prairies, particularly for redbacked cutworms in the Peace region, central Alberta around Vermilion and Vegreville, and west central Saskatchewan. Flea beetles have been sprayed on early-seeded and slow developing canola. And the Peace region has grasshoppers eating fields already…
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For weeds that do not "wet" easily avoid using very coarse droplets, and use high water volumes…
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A water rinse is not usually enough to remove herbicide residue from the sprayer system. Herbicides can bind to the tanks and hoses, and most need water plus a cleaning solution to remove them. If not, you never know when the bound herbicide molecules will be released…