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Recent trends in the way farmers choose to harvest and store canola are raising questions about current safe-storage guidelines. Bins are getting larger, more farmers are leaving their canola stand to maturity for direct-cutting and, increasingly, farmers want the option to keep canola in the bin longer as a marketing tool…
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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,……
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CCC President Patti Miller (l) and MP Chrystia Freeland in China with canola from Freeland's father's farm in Alberta…
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Step one is to measure the amount of loss. This article describes all the steps in detail. Step two is to determine whether that loss is acceptable. Step three is to take steps to reduce losses…
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Canola producers can lose up to five bushels or more per acre if the combine isn’t adjusted properly. Here are tips to measure combine losses and make adjustment to limit those losses, putting more canola in the bin and reducing the volunteer canola seedbank in your fields…
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Optimal swath timing for canola yield and quality is when at least 60% of seeds on the main stem are showing some colour change. Should growers adjust this approach in situations that make the decision more difficult? The following many help with those decisions…
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After a moist spring and summer in many areas, disease levels in harvest canola could be high this year — even for fields that received a fungicide…
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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 quickly select for those pathotypes that are virulent to those varieties. With good moisture for clubroot this year, many fields of CR canola are showing…
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Canola Discovery Forum is your chance to work along with growers, researchers and other canola industry stakeholders to identify research shortcomings and set research priorities for Western Canada. Space is limited to 150. Join the discussion in Winnipeg October 25-27. Register now…
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