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Many areas of the Prairies — particularly central and north regions — are at least one to two weeks away from seeding. This would put seeding at mid to late May. Those dates are still good for yield potential and are within crop insurance deadlines…
May 3, 2017 - Issue 6
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Alberta still has close to one million unharvested acres as of this week. Saskatchewan and Manitoba also have unharvested acres. Here are some considerations for those acres… -
CCC agronomists are getting three common questions with regard to wet fields and unharvested. They are: 1. What if I plant canola on canola acres that are still not harvested? 2. What can we expect for seed mortality in excessively wet soils? 3. What to do about ruts?…
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By early May, soil temperature at 1” depth — the canola seed zone — often exceeds this temperature during the day and should get continually warmer with each day. For this reason, soil temperature in May is less of a factor in the seeding-start decision than it would be in April… -
The new target plant stand and seeding rate calculators at canolacalculator.ca will help determine the correct plant stand for an individual field…
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Ultimately, another group with your glyphosate will help combat difficult weeds. Multiple groups in one pass have been shown to delay herbicide resistance – but the tank mix has to be effective…
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A Canola Watch quiz in 2015 asked readers to pick the most common weeds they target in the pre-seed window on fields planned for canola. Here are the weeds ranked in order based on survey responses, along with herbicide recommendations for pre-seed application on fields planned for canola… -
canolaPALOOZA will be at three locations in 2017. Saskatchewan: June 20 at AAFC Saskatoon. Registration and information. Manitoba: June 22 at AAFC Portage la Prairie. Registration and information. Alberta: June 27 at AAFC Lacombe. Registration and information…
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Subscribe to the Canola Watch podcast through iTunes and Google Play or just listen here. The latest three podcasts are on canoLAB topics…