Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) plans to continue its evaluation of best practices for summer storage of canola in 2016. PAMI is looking for partner canola producers in Saskatchewan to assist with data collection…
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Murray Hartman’s Science-O-Rama is April 6 at the Renaissance Edmonton Airport Hotel. The one-day meeting features 11 research updates. Registration is $75 plus GST. For more information and to register, click here…
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Cover crops provide ground cover to avoid leaving fields bare. They provide weed competition, take up excess moisture, tie up nutrients at or near the soil surface so they’re not lost, and improve salinity. Nitrogen-fixing cover crops can increase soil nitrogen levels. Grassy cover crops act as “green manure”. All cover crops can reduce wind and water erosion of soil…
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Think of clubroot like a grass fire. The best way to contain the spread of clubroot is to work diligently outside the hot zone using whatever tools available to keep the “fire” from spreading to your farm. Seeding clubroot-resistant (CR) varieties is a good early action…
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Do you think Canola Performance Trials should continue? If yes, in what fashion? You have only a few more days to have your voice heard on the canola variety trial information you see in your provincial Seed Guide!…
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One challenge with boron is the hot water extraction (HW) soil test commonly used to test boron levels does not seem to be a reliable indicator of available boron. A 1999 study by Rigas Karamanos showed no relation between HW boron levels and canola yield, as the graph shows. Yet soil analysis continues to use the HW test for boron…