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• • 2020 – Issue 7
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  Pre-seed burnoff: Tips for best results

  April 30, 2020

  • Pre-seed burnoff
  • Weeds

  

  Weeds that emerge before the crop will out-compete the crop for moisture, nutrients and sunlight. That is why just a small number of weeds – even just a few per square foot – emerging before or with the crop can be much more damaging to yield potential than a larger number of weeds flushing later…

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  Harvest Sample Program for spring-harvested canola

  April 30, 2020

  The Canadian Grain Commission has restarted its project researching the quality of late-harvested (i.e. spring harvested) canola and flax…

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  PODCAST: Update on China, COVID-19

  April 29, 2020

  Canola Watch re-posts this April 28 audio presentation with two timely themes – trade with China and COVID-19. Presenters are Jim Everson, president of the Canola Council of Canada, and Rick White, president and CEO of the Canadian Canola Growers Association…

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  How to improve canola seed emergence

  April 29, 2020

  The percentage of canola seeds that emerge to form plants is typically in the range of 50 to 60 per cent. The goal is to move the Western Canadian average……

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  Fertilizer: Safe-seed placed rates

  April 29, 2020

  The recommended practice for canola is to place no more than 20 lb./ac. of phosphate (40 lb./ac. of MAP, for example) with the seed and put all other fertilizer outside the seed row…

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  Products to disinfect scouting tools

  April 29, 2020

  Bleach is a low-cost and highly effective disnfectant for clubroot spores on equipment, scouting tools, boots and tires. But you have other product options. While you prepare your scouting tool kit, here is the whole list of stuff to include…

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