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Without attention to seeding speed, drill maintenance and other factors that lead to poor seed survival, a canola stand can easily look like this one. A uniform 7 to 10 plants per square foot helps canola meet its yield potential AND mature faster…
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A pre-seed burnoff will result in higher yields versus no pre-seed burnoff. Seeding can begin fairly soon after a burnoff. For annuals and winter annuals, glyphosate needs only 24 hours to get to the growing point. After a day, the crop can be seeded. For perennial weeds, 3 days should be enough in sunny and warm conditions but 5 days… -
Hit these volunteer canola plants when they're small with a pre-seed burnoff. Volunteer canola is a weed and competes with the crop for nutrients and water and sunlight. Volunteers do not have seed treatment, so they can introduce seedling diseases and increase flea beetle pressure. Also, volunteers in non canola years provide a host for blackleg, clubroot and insects, reducing… -
Nufarm provides the following tips for CleanStart ahead of canola…
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Yield potential tends to drop off with late May and early June seeding dates. At those seeding dates, it will be important to look at factors that can delay maturity and increase the potential for yield and quality — green seed — losses… -
CCC agronomy specialists have a new project for 2013 — the Ultimate Canola Challenge (UCC). The underlying challenge is to follow all best management practices (BMPs) to see how canola yields when you “do everything right.” Additional treatments — such as boron — will be evaluated to see if they provide an improvement in yield, quality, maturity and return on… -
Have you met the Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialist for your region? You have many opportunities to connect with them in a year…
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Highlights from CanoLAB in Saskatoon include: —Why canola must have sulphur —The “hidden hunger” of phosphate deficiency —Elevated risk for herbicide carryover in 2013 —Management tips for Group 9 resistant kochia (shown in the photo above) —Rotation as part of clubroot management —Diagnosing blanks on the stem The Canola Diagnostic Tool is live at www.canoladiagnostictool.ca. Click "read more" to see…
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When fields are sulphur deficient, canola that receives only nitrogen fertilizer (front left in photo) can yield less than canola that receives no fertilizer at all (right in photo). Canola plants need sulphur to produce three key amino acids: methionine, cysteine and cystine. Without the S to build these amino acids, N creates toxic amides in the plant that greatly…