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Default to waiting. Don’t make a snap decision to swath. Before taking any harvest action, start with this sequence…
September 6, 2018 – Issue 23
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Predicting sclerotinia stem rot severity is difficult. This quiz is a review of management decisions for 2018, including a specific look at DNA petal tests. Please take a minute to do this quick survey… -
General frost areas for the morning of September 4, the morning we sent out the frost action alert… -
Weather delays? Canola not ready to swath? Waiting for the next crops to be ready to combine? Take advantage of harvest down days to check canola fields for the following… -
Combine losses vary throughout the day. If using the same combine settings all day long, losses in the morning and evening could be significant if the combine is set for easy-threshing afternoons. Or losses in the afternoons could be higher if the combine is locked in for those tough-swath times of day. Checking for combine losses under various conditions will… -
Swathing later will increase yield because more of the later seeds in side branches will reach maturity and contribute to yield. But what if harvest is moving slowing and the priority shifts from highest yield to just getting the crop in the bin?…
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New tests allow farmers to identify the blackleg races in their fields. With this information, farmers can choose canola varieties with resistance to those races… -
As we learned at the International Clubroot Workshop, genetic resistance to clubroot is failing at an increasing rate all around the world. To help reduce selection pressure for clubroot pathotypes…… -
Fall is a good time to control perennial and winter annual weeds, but spraying immediately after harvest may not provide the best results…