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Canola fields may benefit from a top-dress application of nitrogen or sulphur (or both) if logistics and weather prevented the full recommended application of fertilizer at or before seeding, and if improved weather conditions (rainfall, for example) have increased the yield potential of the crop…
Canola Watch Posts
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Any canola in storage should be checked – just to make sure it's safe. Reports of heating bins are trickling in this week… -
When growers have canola stands of fewer than four plants per square foot — due to low seeding rates, poor emergence, insects*, crusting, frost, wind, etc. — they grapple with the question whether to reseed…
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Plant counts can influence management decisions for the current crop (if counts are low, you’ll need to protect all of those plants) and for next year’s seeding rate and plant protection decisions. Plant counts are an important part of the checklist for your post-emergence assessments… -
Canola Watch has many valued connections, including the Canola Council of Canada, SaskCanola, Alberta Canola and Manitoba Canola Growers, as well as research institutions, government extension departments, ag businesses, universities and other commodity groups. This section provides timely support for canola-related projects outside of Canola Watch…
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Got canola emergence issues? Little canola plants are vulnerable to many different risk factors, including seedling diseases. Seed treatments are usually very good at managing the common seedling disease pathogens of canola, however seed, seedling and root rots can flare up under the right circumstances. Here are details about the three pathogens in the canola seedling disease complex, and the… -
Four questions that will help with your approach to flea beetle scouting and risk assessment… -
With wind delays and pressure to get crops seeded, the weed spraying operation could be bouncing from crop to crop, and from pre-seed burnoff in one field to early post-emergence in another. This requires extra attention to detail for tank mixing and sprayer clean-out…
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Cutworm feeding results in notched, wilted, dead or cut-off plants. Patches of missing plants could also be cutworms. Include cutworms on the scouting checklist for the first one to three weeks after emergence…