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UCC 2014: Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
UCC 2014 at CMCDC is a canola production trial intended to showcase three styles of input/cost management. Each treatment will have different cost of production budgets to work with, reflecting…
Latest Issue | November 13 2024, Issue 27
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Four this week
The top four canola management messages for this week are: Weed out volunteers, perennials and winter annuals. Pre-seed is a profitable time to control weeds ahead of canola. Seed right… -
Map of the week
This map shows accummulated moisture across the Prairies for the 30 days from April 6 to May 5. Topsoil moisture is generally good across the Prairies. Moist soil is more… -
May 7 Quiz
Can you go four for four? Here are the questions: 1. One gram of soil, less a sugar cube’s worth, from a heavily clubroot-infested field could have how many clubroot… -
Weed out volunteers, perennials and winter annuals
Research shows that a pre-seed burnoff will result in higher yields versus no pre-seed burnoff. Walk fields to see what weeds are present and how fast they’re advancing. Seeding can… -
Knock off clubrooty mud
Moist seed conditions mean more soil clinging to drills and tractor and sprayer wheels. This increases the risk of moving clubroot as well as weed seeds and insect pupae around… -
UCC 2014 big on crop nutrition
Canola profits tend to benefit most from a nutrition plan that includes nitrogen, sulphur and some seed-placed phosphate. But what about potassium? Or micros? The Canola Council of Canada’s Ultimate… -
ALERT – Possible new virulent clubroot pathotype
New data from the Alberta clubroot disease survey indicates some forms of clubroot resistance are no longer functioning well against a possible new clubroot pathotype in the Edmonton region. Dr… -
How do new pathotypes develop?
Resistance can lose its effectiveness when repeated cropping of a resistance source selects for individuals within a pathogen population that are virulent on that resistance. Initially, these new pathogen strains…
