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Smart phones and mobility-enabled tablets could be the most valuable scouting tools. But what else should be in your canola scouting kit?…
The scouting toolkit
May 15, 2019
Insects other
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In-crop insect surveys in 2019
May 15, 2019
Insect risk maps depend on lots of scouting and survey. Each year, entomologists from the Ministries of Agriculture and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Research Centres collaborate with extension agrologists, crop specialists and industry groups to conduct insect pest surveys in field crops throughout the Prairies…
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The risks from high canola frequency
March 1, 2019
Scientific research in Western Canada has identified three factors that increase the risk of canola yield loss in short rotations. They are blackleg, clubroot and cabbage root maggot. Clubroot will drive the need for longer breaks between canola crops on more and more farms…
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Biobeds: What are they and why build them?
March 1, 2019
A pesticide rinsate biobed can prevent the environmental contamination of surface and groundwater by pesticides. Instead of being disposed of directly on land, at the edge of a field or elsewhere, the rinsate from the sprayer can be applied to the biobed (so it is contained)…
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Take part in crowd-sourced insect reporting
February 8, 2019
Think how on the ball we could be with insect management if everyone shared their scouting results? We could see hot spots flare up early in very localized areas, providing a highly valuable alert to farmers within and beside those areas. Provincial entomologists tracking insect outbreaks would welcome your input…
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Late-season insects and pre-harvest intervals
August 22, 2018
We had reports this week of bertha armyworm at higher numbers (maybe not at thresholds) in some very localized areas, lygus (it’s getting late), flea beetles (don’t spray them, it……
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Diamondback moth parasitoid in high numbers
July 11, 2018
Entomologists were excited to find a known diamondback moth parasitoid, the 2mm-long Diolcogaster claritibia wasp, at very high numbers in Alberta canola fields over the past couple of weeks…
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Photography tips for agronomy
June 6, 2018
Photographs can be a valuable diagnostic tool, but they have to be in focus, taken from various angles and come with details on field conditions and location…
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Tank mixes of herbicides and insecticides or fungicides
May 30, 2018
Combining pest control operations to save trips over the field may seem like good economic sense, but consider the following when making this decision:…