January 13, 2017

Your tips for ruts and overwintered canola

We’re putting together some tips on managing ruts and expectations for canola left out all winter. These will be posted in the February or March Canola Watch. Do you have tips on ruts management, combining over-wintered canola and crop insurance strategies for over-wintered canola? Share them with us by email to whetterj@canolacouncil.org or through Twitter to @CanolaWatch.

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