2010 Canola Watch Reports

• Canola Watch 19: Tips for swathing lodged crop and green testing

How to set a swather for lodged crop
Brush up on green-seed counting
After light frost, wait a day then assess

• Canola Watch 18: Think twice before swathing early

How to harvest damaged crop
Scout at harvest to help with 2011 planning

• Canola Watch 17: How to harvest diseased and hailed crop

Tips for harvesting diseased fields
Swathing better than straight combining for hailed crop
Harvest tips for short and lodged crop
Lygus up to 10x thresholds

• Canola Watch 16: Be Export Ready, keep pre-harvest intervals top of mind

• Canola Watch 15: Scout for clubroot, harvest tips for thin stands

Clubroot shows up in resistant hybrids
How to scout for clubroot
Should growers straight combine thin crop?
7 swathing tips for 2010
When to swath multi-stage crops

• Canola Watch 14: Insects still active, tips for harvest

Insect roundup
How to harvest fields at various stages?
Be Export Ready: Know pre-harvest Intervals and follow product registrations
Best time to swath: 50-60% seed colour change

• Canola Watch 13: Diamondback spraying begins

Diamondback moth larvae have arrived

• Canola Watch 12: Identify the problem, then act

What to do about strange growth and missing buds
Root rot suspected in wet Manitoba field

• Canola Watch 11: Sclerotina control at 20% bloom

Sclerotinia management: 3 key points
Sclerotinia management: What is 20% flower?
Consider split application for multi-stage crop
Tips to control multiple insect species at once
Keep malathion out of canola bins

• Canola Watch 10: Insect threat builds

  Insect threat mounts on many fronts
  Lygus spraying starts in Peace
  Good conditions for sclerotinia stem rot
  Watch for blackleg on leaves
  Recovering crop needs nutrients

• Canola Watch 9: Sclerotinia watch begins for earliest canola

  Meet these crop insurance deadlines
  Still time for a fertilizer topdress
  Lygus watch starts in Peace
  How late can you spray?
  Low expectations for volunteer canola crop

• Canola Watch 8: Take action on weeds and cutworms

  Yellow canola: Wait for moisture stress to ease
  Fertilizer top up in good conditions
  Cutworm threat to extend into July
  Tank mixing herbicides with insecticides

• Canola Watch 7: Tips for aerial spraying and seeding

• Canola Watch 6: Tips for soggy fields
  

• Canola Watch 5: Tips for late seeding, N top up, insect scouting
  

• Canola Watch 4: A second pre-seed burn, glyphosate tips, scout for flea beetles

• Canola Watch 3: Rotate herbicide-tolerant systems; limit seed-placed N  

• Canola Watch 2: What to do first, seed or control weeds?

• Canola Watch 1: Early seeding, pre-seed burnoff, check bins