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PAMI researchers install a probe in a canola bin as part of a temperature monitoring study, which ran from June through to mid-August 2016. (PAMI.ca)
Canola, Crops, Weather

Cool, dry canola keeps best when left alone

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Reading Time: 3 minutes For farmers who plan to keep canola in bins through the hottest months of the year, a new Prairie study suggests that to manage bin temperature, less handling is better. Having set out to study how best to manage higher-moisture canola over the spring and summer, a team from the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) […] Read more
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General, Markets

Ag groups tout potential of trade pact with China

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian ag commodity groups expect to make a case for freer trade with China during consultations now underway alongside Ottawa’s talks on a possible free trade deal with Beijing. Federal Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne on Friday announced public consultations, running until June 2, following last September’s announcement of “exploratory discussions” on a free trade agreement […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Canola, Crops, Markets

Canola’s rally pushes cash prices higher

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Canola cash prices notched gains with recent news out of the U.S., but the market remains rangebound, and near-term support is likely to run dry. Canola cash prices were supported by a two-day rally in the futures, said Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada, but crushers have widened out the basis for nearby […] Read more
Clubroot resistance in Canadian canola varieties has relied almost entirely on one source, “Mendel.” Fengqun Yu, research scientist with AAFC Saskatoon, led a project that identified many other clubroot-resistant (CR) genes, found genetic markers for them and then crossed some of them into B. napus lines that could be used for breeding.
Canola, Crops

Real results from public canola research

Potential benefits include genetic resistance to sclerotinia and clubroot

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Publicly funded canola genetics research is producing results in Canada. I recently heard presentations from the following scientists and was impressed with the potential for each project to increase yield or lower input and management costs for Canadian canola farmers. A new way to produce pure seed Tim Sharbel, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the […] Read more
Being diversified, our risk management is spread, but that also means we aren’t as efficient as we could be when you compare to other operations really specialized in one commodity like grain and oilseed or strictly cattle.” – Ken Lewis
Crops, Guide Business, Livestock

Diversification the name of the game for Lewis Farms

Change Makers: From potatoes to grain to a commercial bull business, Lewis Farms has diversified to manage risk and accommodate market challenges

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Reading Time: 7 minutes “Sometimes, progress simply isn’t possible without change,” says Ken Lewis, general manager of Lewis Farms in Spruce Grove, just west of Edmonton, Alta. Which means that ignoring opportunities to change, or actively resisting change when it arrives can actually be the paths of greatest risk. Because change will happen. In fact, like other farmers, Lewis […] Read more
The pea vines can support the canola and make it easier to harvest.
Canola, Crops, Pulses

Peaola continues to show promise

On their own, the peas and canola may only produce 60 per cent of normal, but that still adds up to a 120 per cent yield

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Intercropping sometimes gets a bad rap from producers. For one thing, crop insurance often doesn’t cover intercropped mixtures, so if one or both crops fail, they’re out of luck. For another, yield benefits don’t always outweigh the extra legwork required at planting and harvest. But the promise of intercropping is that some crops can be […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

Federal forecast sees more oilseed acres, less in grains

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian farmers are expected to cut back the summerfallow allocation and put more acres in production this spring, planting more of those acres in oilseeds and fewer in grains and pulses. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis group on Monday released an outlook for principal field crops which, assuming a return to average or trend […] Read more
Midge larvae inside a canola floret. Federal researchers have documented a new midge species in Prairie canola that differs significantly from the swede midge it was believed to be. (AAFC photo by Julie Soroka from CanolaWatch.org)
Canola, Crops

Anonymous midge appears in Prairie canola

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canola crops in northeastern Saskatchewan and east-central Alberta have run up against a potential pest problem so new it doesn’t yet have a name. Researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the University of Guelph and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have reported a new species of midge damaging canola crops in those areas. The species […] Read more
When swathing the Ultimate Canola Challenge trials at Hillside Colony near Brandon, Man., regrowth and lodging from two hailstorms in early July become evident. In this situation, extra curing time is even more important to harvestability and lower combine losses.
Canola, Crops

Cure canola longer, harvest more

When canola swaths are cured and dry, combines put a lot more canola in the tank and a lot less on the ground

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Kristen Phillips already knew that combines capture more available yield when canola is cured and dry, but she was still surprised when she was harvesting one set of Ultimate Canola Challenge (UCC) plots this fall. The Canola Council of Canada’s UCC program for 2016 aimed to help identify agronomically and economically optimal nitrogen (N) rates […] Read more

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