Canola Watch 2023 exam – Section 4 – Agronomy tips from multi-media

The Canola Watch 2023 annual exam for Certified Crop Advisors and Certified Crop Science Consultants (and anyone else who wants to enhance their agronomy skills) has five sections:

• Soil & Water (1.0 CCA credit in soil and water management)
• Diseases, Weeds and Insects (1.0 CCA credit in integrated pest management)
• Canola Watch Fundamentals (0.5 CCA credit in integrated pest management and 0.5 CCA credit in crop management)
• Agronomy tips from new canola multi-media (1.0 CCA credit in crop management)
• Canola Digest Science 2023 (1 CEU – 0.5 in integrated pest management and 0.5 in nutrient management)

Find them all here

Customize the exam based on credits you need. Credits will apply in either 2023 or 2024, depending on when you pass each section. For those who pass, Canola Watch will submit names and program ID numbers to the program to have the credits counted.

For questions or additional information on this exam, please contact Jay Whetter at 807-466-3025 or whetterj@canolacouncil.org.

Section 4. Agronomy tips from new canola multi-media

The Canola Council of Canada shares agronomy content through various media. This section focuses on alternative delivery methods, including videos, podcasts, social media, online calculators and the Canola Research Hub blog. People who take this section will learn canola agronomy information and discover new resources to share with their farmer clients. The experience of taking this exam will also open their eyes and ears to new effective knowledge transfer methods they may want to try in their own work.

Achieve a minimum score of 70 per cent (7 out of 10) to receive 1 continuing education credit (CEU) for Certified Crop Advisers (CCA) or Certified Crop Science Consultants (CCSC).

Specific credits for CCAs: 1.0 in crop management

CCA tracking number SS 57908.

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About you

1. REQUIRED - Your full name:

2. Your CCA number: (Leave blank if not applicable)

3. Your CCSC number: (Leave blank if not applicable.)

4. REQUIRED - Email address:

5. Phone number:

6. REQUIRED - What region best describes your work territory?

Manitoba

Saskatchewan

Alberta

Other Canadian province

Outside Canada

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7. The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) has a new blackleg yield loss calculator. If you enter a blackleg severity rating of “2.2,” blackleg incidence percentage of “20,” projected canola yield of “45” bu./ac., and project canola price of “$17” per bushel, what does the calculator say is the value of the potential yield loss from blackleg?

$7.51 per acre

$15.80 per acre

$11.09 per acre

$20.15 per acre

8. The Canola Research Hub blog post “Finding the best fertilizer plan for your operation” includes results from an Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation (IHARF) study on canola seed safety and yield response to novel phosphorus sources. Based on study results, which of the following treatments was always more profitable than the control? Canola Research Hub blog posts

Monoammonium phosphate

Crystal Green struvite

MicroEssentials S15

Monoammonium phosphate and Crystal Green blend

9. The Canola Encyclopedia has a new section on canola cultivar traits. It brings together information on herbicide tolerance, blackleg resistance ratings, blackleg R-gene groups, clubroot resistance and one other trait. What is it?

Days to maturity

Sclerotinia stem rot resistance

Hot weather tolerance

Pod shatter tolerance

10. @CanolaWatch posted a doodle image on X (Twitter) on February 27. The post starts with “I’m doodling and experimenting with visuals to express agronomy messages.” You have to find the tweet to answer the question. What agronomy message did the doodle convey?

How warm outside air on a sunny winter day creates moisture migration inside grain bins.

How a uniform stand of 5-8 plants per square foot can help with flea beetle management.

How spring thaw creates a spike in nitrogen emissions, especially in low spots.

How a tumbling Group-9-resistant kochia plant can spreads seeds over the countryside.

11. @CanolaWatch posted this image on X (Twitter) on September 6. What does it show?

Sclerotinia sclerotia

Blackleg pycnidia

Sooty moulds from alternaria

Verticillium microsclerotia

12. The CCC launched a new agronomy video called “How to interpret race tests for blackleg resistance selection” with host Clint Jurke. (Find it at the CCC YouTube channel.) The video will help you answer this question: If lab tests on infected stem pieces show blackleg phenotypes A2-4-5-6-7-11, which one of the following canola cultivar R-genes will provide resistance to the blackleg phenotypes present in that field?

Rlm3, Resistance Group C

Rlm4, Resistance Group E1

LepR1, Resistance Group D

Rlm1, Resistance Group A

13. The CCC launched a new agronomy video called “How to collect samples for verticillium stripe testing” with host Courtney Ross. (Find it at the CCC YouTube channel.) At what crop stage do you collect samples for verticillium stripe analysis?

Late flowering stage when diseased plants are most obvious

Late fall when residue pieces are fully infected with resting spores

Just prior to or shortly after harvest

Pod stage before plants start to senesce

14. The CCC launched a new agronomy video called “How to reduce combine loss: Optimize the combine cleaning system” with host Shawn Senko. (Find it at the CCC YouTube channel) The video walks through various adjustments to reduce canola loss out the back of the combine. What is the final adjustment mentioned in the video?

Reduce ground speed

Increase fan speed by 100 rpm

Open the lower sieve as much as possible

Open the upper sieve in 3mm or 1/8” increments

15. Canola Watch podcast episode 92 interviewed University of Saskatchewan Ph.D. student Alex Liu to talk about the canola root microbiome and its effect on phosphorus uptake. Near the end of the podcast, Liu named a specific bacteria that is positively correlated to canola yield and warrants further study as a potential biofertilizer. What is the bacteria? (Canola Watch podcast playlist.)

Alphaproteobacteria

Olpidium

Sordariomycetes

Burkholderia

16. Canola Watch podcast episode 93 interviewed Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research scientist Brian Beres to talk about a recent study. The study compared canola performance based on combinations of seeding rate, harvest method and timing, and cultivar maturity. Somewhere in the first half of the podcast, Beres utters this line: “You can have really good success at half the seeding rate, at six seeds per square foot, but here’s the caveat to that: It’s got to be ____________.” (Fill in the blank.) (Canola Watch podcast playlist.)

Placed into moisture and at a uniform seed spacing and depth

In environments where you don’t have stress

Closely protected from insects, disease and weed competition

In situations where long falls allow for side branches to mature

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