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CanoLAB 2015: Take home messages
CanoLAB 2015 wraps up this week in Brandon. The following short summaries from a few of the many CanoLAB instructors outline key “take home” messages for the eight topic areas…
Latest Issue | November 13 2024, Issue 27
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Are we mining soil phosphorus?
Phosphorus fertilizer rates have, pretty generally, lagged crop removal for some time. As crops remove the soluble phosphorus in the soil, the soil’s large reserve of less soluble forms will… -
Sulphur forms: Which to use and when?
Canola has a high demand for sulphur. Because of high sulphur variability across most fields, the common recommendation is to apply 10-15 lb./ac. of sulphur when soil test results show… -
UCC: Looking for growers for boron trial
As part of UCC 2015, the CCC agronomy team is looking for 12-15 growers from across the Prairies to test boron in field-scale trials in 2015… -
Clubroot R breakdown: Preliminary results from 2014 survey
Stephen Strelkov with the University of Alberta tested soil samples from 27 fields in Alberta that were seeded to resistant varieties in 2014 and showed more than expected levels of… -
Shorter season varieties
Growers sometimes prefer earlier maturing canola varieties given their season zone or if spring seeding is later than expected. Here is a list of all NAMED varieties supported for registration… -
Reader question
A Canola Watch reader asks: “I am interested to find out how many acres of continuous canola are actually in the Peace compared to other areas.” Leander Campbell from Agriculture… -
Agronomy topics for February
The Canola Council of Canada launches a new agronomy video on the value of strong stand establishment. Click the image above. In celebration of International Year of Soils 2015, the… -
Does soil health really matter? YES
The CCC agronomy team asked Mario Tenuta, the University of Manitoba’s Canada research chair in applied soil ecology, if preserving soil health really matters, or can soil degradation be corrected…
