Clubroot quiz: The podcast

Listen to our new podcast: Clubroot overcoming R varieties Subscribe to our Canola Watch podcasts through iTunes and Google Play. More than 10 clubroot pathotypes have been identified in Alberta, and clubroot-resistant (CR) varieties will not protect against all of them. CR varieties with the same source of resistance grown in a short rotation will…

How is clubroot sanitation like exercise? You don’t do it unless you have a plan. In this podcast, Mike Harding, plant pathology research scientist with Alberta Agriculture and Food, Barb Ziesman, provincial plant disease specialist with Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, and Dan Orchard, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, explain the three levels…

This quiz includes a link to the video “Clubroot of canola: Disease cycle” and the resources at clubroot.ca. Take time to learn as much as possible about this disease and how to stop it.

Through the pod filling time between flowering and harvest, growers and agronomists will want to take time for a more intense session of clubroot scouting. But what are you looking for? This quiz will help train your eye, but it you’re still not sure, send samples away for testing. (Manitoba and Saskatchewan canola growers, see…