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Cutworms: Timely scouting and spray decisions
Include cutworms on the scouting checklist for the first one to three weeks after emergence. Any later and management becomes more difficult because (i) spraying a registered insecticide is useless…
Latest Issue | November 13 2024, Issue 27
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What causes herbicide carryover damage?
Factors that affect herbicide carryover are herbicide group, field history, soil characteristics, dry conditions and temperature… -
Canola usually recovers from early-season hail
Early season hail rarely has an impact on canola yield potential. Hailed seedlings usually come back very well. Even when individual plants die, a whole canola crop is fairly resilient… -
Photography tips for agronomy
Photographs can be a valuable diagnostic tool, but they have to be in focus, taken from various angles and come with details on field conditions and location… -
See the AgraBot demo at canolaPALOOZA Alberta
At Alberta canolaPALOOZA, June 27 at Lacombe, farmer Brian Tischler will demonstrate his AgraBot. The DIY autonomous tractor uses free and open source software called AgOpenGPS. At canolaPALOOZA, Tischler will… -
Canola Watch quiz – Spraying
A quick quiz to test spraying windows, inversions and timing… -
Map of the Week – precipitation
Up until yesterday, many parts of Alberta and Western Saskatchewan hadn't received much rain over the past week. The Eastern Prairies got more. Rain events continue today in some areas… -
Flea beetles: Why are some fields so bad in 2018?
Early-seeded and slow-growing canola crops (usually due to dry conditions) have faced more flea beetle pressure this year, particularly in Manitoba and central Alberta. Flea beetle emergence tended to occur… -
In-crop herbicide timing – scenarios
In general, early is the best for herbicide timing. A few early weeds emerging before or at the same time as canola plants are much more damaging to yield than……
