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Questions of the Week
August 16, 2023
Verticillium Stripe
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Topics for the week
September 28, 2022
Combine settings today different from September 1 | Weeds: Take advantage of warm fall days | This week in scouting | Hot canola is a storage risk…
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Topics for the Week
September 14, 2022
Eyes out for verticillium stripe (and other diseases too) | Set combine settings for max returns | Post-harvest weed control | Minimize storage risk…
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Topics for the Week
August 31, 2022
Timing end-of-season management right | What to plant next year? | Prep now for storage | Late-season evaluation: disease management and more…
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Seed recommending committee tackles canola diseases
February 10, 2021
Changes to canola disease labeling systems, protocols and cultivar screening – which all work toward ensuring high quality canola can be produced with minimized disease pressure – are covered by the pathology sub-committee of the Western Canada Canola/Rapeseed Recommending Committee (WCC/RRC). A recent sub-committee meeting on February 2 included discussion and changes on blackleg, clubroot and verticillium stripe…
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Watch Verticillium stripe webinar
December 16, 2020
Justine Cornelsen, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, provided an overview of verticillium stripe disease for a Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture webinar. View the webinar recording. The Canola Encyclopedia……
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How to identify verticillium stripe
September 2, 2020
The fungal pathogen Verticillium longisporum causes stem cross-section discolouration that can look somewhat like blackleg and bleaching of the stem that can look somewhat like sclerotinia stem rot. But these diseases are all quite different in terms of yield risk and management, so it’s important to be able to tell them apart…
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Identifying verticillium. Or is it blackleg, sclerotinia or grey stem?
September 7, 2017
If whitened canola stems are peeling and have black spots under the peeled layer, the cause is likely verticillium. Seeing this? Please get it checked out and let us know. We're trying to find out how widespread the disease is…
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Post-harvest scouting for verticillium and other diseases
September 28, 2016
Disease scouting long after swathing is not usually the most accurate, as saprophytic organisms — those that feed on and break down dead material — move in fast and cloud the identification process. Verticillium is one disease that can be more obvious and easier to identify after cutting a canola crop…