Wednesday, July 07, 2010 - Canola producers can lose up to five bushels per acre if their combine
isn’t adjusted properly. Attend the Canola Council of Canada’s Combine Clinic in Vegreville, Alta., to learn how to reduce these costly losses.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010 -
Drought-stressed canola may not be
able to compensate for lost buds the way a healthy crop can. Some farmers in the Peace River region have already made the decision to spray.
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Sunday, June 20, 2010 - Seed companies and crop insurance providers have programs for unseeded
and flooded crop, but call them immediately about key deadlines
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Friday, June 04, 2010 - A plant stand count does 2 things for you. One, if you find a thin stand, you know you must take extra care to keep those plants healthy. And two, it tells you whether all the steps you took to achieve 10 plants per square foot worked.
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Friday, June 04, 2010 - Young canola plants are vulnerable to numerous stresses, particularly flea beetles, cutworms and seedling diseases. It pays to scout often at this time of the season.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010 - Given the rush to complete the seeding task, growers can't forget to scout their already emerged crop. Keep an eye out for cutworm damage. Wet conditions force cutworms to the surface, where they are more likely to die from predation and disease, but a field around Bagot, Man., has already had a crop insurance assessment for cutworm damage.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - Scouting for flea beetles at field edges works early in the season when conditions are cool. With warmer weather, flea beetles will have moved throughout canola fields. Scout the whole field looking for hot spots — especially in canola fields seeded three weeks ago.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - Glyphosate works best when applied during daylight hours, and when temperatures are warm and humidity high. Read on for more weather and water tips to improve glyphosate performance.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 - In this video, CCC senior agronomy specialist Derwyn Hammond explains why taking time to set your drill between seed lots is a good idea. That way your seeding rate reflects the thousand seed weight (TSW) of your canola seed — every lot is different — and you may discover serious mistakes before it's too late. Click here for tables that show how TSW influences the number of plants per square foot based on a fixed seeding rate and seedling survival rate.
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Thursday, May 06, 2010 - With early emergence of perennial, winter annual and annual weeds, along with volunteers, growers face an important question: When the fields dry out, should the priority be pre-seed weed control or getting the canola seed in the ground?
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