• How to reduce combine losses

    September 18, 2019

    Canola producers can lose up to five bushels per acre – perhaps even more – if the combine isn’t adjusted properly. Here are tips to measure combine losses and make adjustment to limit those losses, putting more canola in the bin and reducing the volunteer canola seedbank in your fields…

  • Rain delays harvest. What to do?

    September 18, 2019

    Harvest delays due to soggy soils, frequent rains and even mist have canola growers wondering about risk to the crop and what, if anything, they can do reduce these risks…

  • Why count canola stems in the fall?

    September 11, 2019

    While doing harvest disease scouting, why not do a plant count at the same time? Compare final plant populations for each canola crops to its days to maturity, evenness, harvestability and yield to determine your favourite plant density this year…

  • Swathing early: Economics

    September 5, 2019

    Canola fields swathed at 60% seed colour change (SCC) on the main stem can yield 8% more than fields swathed at 30% SCC. Run yield and profit scenarios for your own canola…

  • Disease ID tips for pre-harvest scouting

    September 5, 2019

    Clear patches of canola plants that are yellowing prematurely could be diseased. These are obvious places to start a pre-harvest disease survey. Clubroot continues to spread into new areas, so this disease is one possible cause – even in fields with a clubroot-resistant variety. In addition to the obvious patches, check a few random areas in the better producing parts…

  • Frost hits canola. What do you do?

    August 21, 2019

    Default to waiting. Don’t make a snap decision to swath. Before taking any harvest action, start with this sequence…

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