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The science of how neonicotinoids work
Canola, Crops

The science of how neonicotinoids work

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Neonicotinoids, like many of our insecticides, are neurotoxins that go after the central nervous system. We often refer to the nervous system as an organism’s wiring, but its workings are a lot more complicated because all physiological actions must take place at low temperatures that won’t damage the surrounding proteins. Any electrician will tell you […] Read more
honeybee on a canola flower
Canola, Crops

Neonicotinoids for pest management

Evidence in support of neonics is impressive, if you take the time to understand it

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Another summer is over, another harvest is done and now the key decisions are starting to loom for next year’s crop. The canola page in the seed catalogue is open, but whether the varieties on display are OPs or hybrids, herbicide tolerant, Argentine or Polish, most of them will come with a seed coating containing an […] Read more
Canola, Crops, Markets

Scoular to source canola, sell output for Legumex’s U.S. crusher

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Grain trading firm The Scoular Co. is set to start feeding canola to Prairie special crop processor Legumex Walker’s crushing facility near the U.S. West Coast — and to market the plant’s production. Winnipeg-based Legumex on Monday announced a “long-term strategic alliance” with Scoular, in which Scoular will procure all canola seed for processing at Legumex’s […] Read more
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Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Dreyfus’ Sask. canola plant offline indefinitely

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — A canola-crushing plant owned by the Canadian unit of global grain trader Louis Dreyfus will be offline indefinitely after an explosion and fire on Friday, the company said. Firefighters are investigating the cause of the blast at the Yorkton, Sask. plant, and an assessment of the structural condition of a canola meal storage […] Read more
Canola, Crops

CGC data suggest canola quality down slightly on year

Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — The quality of Canada’s 2014 canola crop is down slightly on the year, according to early harvest data compiled by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC). With 1,132 samples received as of Wednesday, approximately 88 per cent of the canola samples were graded as No. 1. That compares with 93.7 per cent of […] Read more
canola pod and seeds
Canola, Production

Cut canola later, combine slower come harvest

Canola harvest losses can be a lot worse than you think. Swathing later is one way to boost yield. Refining your combine ground speed and other settings is another

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Canola growers are leaving a lot of yield on the table. Or, more accurately, they are leaving a lot of yield “off” the table and on the ground at harvest. Estimates put losses from the harvest process alone at two to five bu./ac., on average. Early swathing adds to that total. Growers have two key ways […] Read more
Clubroot control strategies do work, but the learning process is still underway.
Canola, Crops, Production

The do’s and don’ts of clubroot

Specific, timely actions can help prevent the spread of disease in your soil

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Reading Time: 2 minutes By now it’s clear. Some control strategies work. Others, says Dan Orchard, just don’t. Pulling plants from dead patches at the end of the season and looking for the disease certainly worked. But it would have worked even better if the recommendation right from the start had been to pull plants and check the roots. […] Read more
Joining the clubroot club
Canola, Crops, Production

Joining the clubroot club

The disease is escaping beyond its Edmonton hot zone, and the rest of the Prairie region must get its response right

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Reading Time: 11 minutes As you drive throughout the region surrounding Edmonton, canola is inescapable. It’s absolutely everywhere. And looking at the crops, it’s easy to understand why. With long days, cool nights and adequate rainfall, this is canola country pure and simple, and in most seasons, the crop flourishes under nearly ideal conditions. Canola has also been a crop […] Read more
“We really do need  a production problem somewhere in the world. We’re not having that today–at least, we’re not perceiving that we’re having it.”
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Looking for a safe bet in an era of crop price predictions

Grain and oilseed prices are down across the board, but there soon could be some opportunities

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Grain farmers across Canada are facing a stagflation-like, worst-of-both-worlds scenario heading into the fall of 2014 thanks to a badly timed combination of projected lower yields and weak prices. When Canadians were hit by stagflation in the late 1970s, they got both barrels with stagnant economic growth and high inflation rates. This crop year, farmers are the […] Read more

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