If you are already looking into booking canola seed for next spring, make sure you add the canolaperformancetrials.ca to your list info sources to check. It features independent, third-party trial data on familiar and new canola varieties from both small plot and field scale sites all across western Canada. A large amount of high-quality data is ready for you to…
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Using the same disease resistance genetics over and over causes a shift in pathogen population, which can then overcome the resistance in our varieties – similar to herbicide resistance in weeds. Knowing the resistance genetics used in previous years will allow growers to rotate to a different resistance gene and reduce the blackleg infection within a field. As many as…
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Growers in the short-season zone will consider days to maturity (DTM) of a variety. Those in counties with clubroot should strongly consider a clubroot resistant variety. Queries on the Canola Performance Trials website can help growers consider these and many other factors when selecting a variety…
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While placing canola seed orders this winter, consider these questions: How much seed do you need? What seed treatment to use? What varieties best suit your needs?…
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Decisions on what variety, nutrient or crop input product to buy are improved with good data. When looking for data, here are a few clues as to the quality of the data set:…