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Plants that look healthy can also have small clubroot galls. While these galls may not cause much yield loss for this plant, they will produce billions of spores that can be spread around and cause yield loss the next time canola goes on that field.
Canola, Crops

Dealing with a flush of clubs

Clubroot specialists across the Prairies are sharing how to slow the disease’s spread, and how to keep it down when it does arrive

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Reading Time: 4 minutes It turns out 200 kilometres of forest is not an impenetrable barrier for clubroot. Canola growers in the Peace River region had crossed their fingers, but knew deep down it couldn’t hold. “Most growers knew we weren’t living in a bubble up here,” says Gregory Sekulic, Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialist for the region. […] Read more
clubroot in canola
Canola, Crops

Six management steps to help prevent clubroot

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The first step in managing clubroot is to minimize the chance of introducing clubroot to the farm in the first place. Make sure equipment and vehicles entering fields are clean. All people entering a field should have disinfected rubber boots or wear disposable booties over their footwear. All seed (not just canola) should be cleaned […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola futures wait on report

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola traders may already be looking ahead to the release of Statistics Canada’s next production estimates, as lacklustre trading amid the holiday season leaves investors searching for direction. StatsCan is scheduled to release its final principal field crop report of the year on Dec. 6. The report is usually […] Read more
Speculative buying sees canola prices firm up
Crops, Markets

Speculative buying sees canola prices firm up

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | CNS Canada – ICE Canada canola prices bounced around within a wide range during the week ended November 17, but finished on a firmer note as a rally in Chicago Board of Trade soybeans gave canola a boost. Any strength was largely tied to chart-based speculative buying, with no real fresh fundamental news […] Read more
Canola south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 3, 2017. (Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China’s Cofco seeks larger Canadian canola volumes

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Winnipeg | Reuters — State-owned Chinese agribusiness Cofco Corp. looks to buy 2.5 million tonnes of Canada’s canola crop next year, a boost of more than one-third over its expected purchases this year as its Canadian office gets established, said the company’s global head of softseeds on Wednesday. Cofco opened its Canadian trading office in […] Read more
Record weekly canola exports reported
Canola, Crops, Spring Wheat

Record weekly canola exports reported

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Winnipeg | CNS Canada – Canada exported the most canola in a single week ever during the week ended November 5, according to the latest Canadian Grain Commission report. The CGC pegged weekly canola exports at 470,200 tonnes of canola during the reporting period. That compares with average weekly exports over the past year of […] Read more
Photo: University of Saskatchewan.
Crops

U of S research reveals controversial insecticides are toxic to songbirds

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatoon – Research at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) has linked the use of insecticides to serious health issues in songbirds. “Studies on the risks of neonicotinoids have often focused on bees that have been experiencing population declines. However, it is not just bees that are being affected by these insecticides,” said Christy […] Read more

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