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How to help water-stressed canola
Wet soils cause an oxygen deficiency, which reduces root respiration and growth. Root failure reduces nutrient uptake, and plants will eventually die unless drowned areas dry out quickly…
Latest Issue | November 13 2024, Issue 27
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Top dressing a weak crop
Excess moisture can reduce soil nitrogen levels through leaching and denitrification. A top dress could address this. But excess moisture and other weather factors that set back the crop may… -
BLOG: Summer storage of canola
The Canola Council, in collaboration with PAMI and the provincial canola grower commissions, is gathering information to help define best management practices for summer storage of canola. We do not… -
Four the week
Sock it to wind. A little wind is OK, but take measures to reduce drift (shown above). Herbicide timing is more important that waiting to achieve full coverage from a… -
Map of the week
We have two maps from AAFC's Drought Watch site showing rainfall as a percent of normal. The top map is for the week of May 27-June 2 and the second… -
June 11 Quiz
Here are the questions: 1. Growers have two key considerations when it comes to spraying — good coverage and drift management. What two objectives below will help you achieve good… -
Tips for spraying in wind
How do you spray weeds in a timely fashion when every day seems too windy? Too windy, according to the Guide to Crop Protection, is wind above 15 km/h. But… -
Cool, cloudy days reduce herbicide efficacy
Applications made when cool cloudy days follow cool nights will result in lower or slower herbicide efficacy than applications made in warm sunny days. Cloudy days don’t provide the photosynthetic… -
Wind drives flea beetles to feed on stems
High winds may force flea beetles off leaf tops and down to leaf undersides and leaf stems. Stem feeding could make the flea beetle situation worse, since it takes just…
