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Put extra input investment into nitrogen
If you’ve budgeted for hybrid seed and optimal herbicide, insecticide and fertilizer applications, and you’d like to spend a little extra to push yields, consider a higher nitrogen rate. This…
Latest Issue | November 13 2024, Issue 27
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Volunteers with stacked HT are out there
Canola volunteers with resistance to more than one herbicide are probably more common than you think. If you’ve only grown Liberty Link canola, for example, but your pre-seed glyphosate treatment… -
Clean new equipment: Keep clubroot at bay
If you don't have clubroot, be sure any used or demo’d equipment you buy is clean before you bring it home. Clean equipment before it leaves the auction site or… -
Canola trade and oil promotion videos
Click here to view an important video about the Canola Market Access Plan. This video as well as the video embedded below played during the Canola Council of Canada convention…… -
CanoLAB 2012 highlights
Most of you did not get to attend CanoLAB 3-D in Edmonton this week, so this edition of Canola Watch will bring you the highlights… -
Station 1: Weed control tips and herbicide management
This article contains 5 quick weed control tips. Tip 1: Herbicide efficacy often goes down in dry conditions because most plants — weeds and crop — will develop a waxy… -
Station 2: Bertha, diamondback and their natural enemies
Growers cannot expect natural enemies to provide enough immediate control to reduce the pest threat to canola in that year. Growers will still have to spray if economic thresholds are… -
Station 3: Lygus and its natural enemies
Our current economic threshold tables for lygus in canola may be too low when applied to current canola production systems across the Prairies. If the stand is healthy and growing… -
Diagnosing nutrient deficiency
Visual assessment of symptoms is not good enough for an accurate diagnosis because symptoms can have many causes. The station hosts used purpling as an example. Purpling is often considered…
