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Farms can run their own strip trials to test how a particular practice or product performs in a local environment – and this is a good time to make a plan…
Canola Watch Posts
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Working with its farmer cooperators, Farming Smarter gets field scale research results and the farmers gets experience in running effective comparison trials…
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Unharvested 2019 crop will be the first thing many Western Canadian farmers will have to deal with this spring. There is no easy or one-size-fits-all answer for how to best handle these crops. The ideal option is probably to combine them because they’ll be worth something, crop insurance may require it, and this step removes most of the volunteer seedbank… -
Compare leading varieties based on days to maturity, lodging, height and yield with the Canola Performance Trials (CPT) online database at canolaperformancetrials.ca. Results from 2019 trials are now loaded into the system…
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On-farm storage capacity allows farmers to sit on more of their grain and wait for better market prices, but this advantage falls apart if the crop spoils in the meantime. The best thing is to check all bins… -
–Which canola varieties to put where? –Which crops to seed first? –What is your canola target stand? –How will you catch up on fertilizer? –What to do with crop remaining in the field?…
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How do you get the most of a farm show so you feel like the experience was worthwhile? Here's one answer: Select the top 3 booths you want to visit and visit them in the morning when people are still fresh…
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Canola growers should use clubroot-resistant (CR) canola varieties and extend their rotation to canola once every three years. But which CR variety should they use? The list of CR canola……
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The final 2019 Canola Performance Trials small plot and field scale data report is now available on the CPT website at canolaperformancetrials.ca…