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Stem lesions are dirty white and usually dotted with numerous small, black pycnidia — the tiny dark specks.
Canola, Production

Preserve blackleg resistance

Clip canola stems this harvest to check for blackleg in your fields

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Blackleg has a way of sneaking up on you. A farm can go for years without any noticeable problems. But without the grower knowing, blackleg races within a field can shift — often in response to seeding the same genetic resistance source over and over — and infection starts to show up where it hadn’t […] Read more
young farmer holding white beans in hand, kneeling in field
Crops, Production

The big change

It’s a safe bet that today’s tough market outlook is already fuelling the next big wave of farm innovation. But which innovation?

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Reading Time: 9 minutes It wasn’t so long ago that the talk at farm meetings was of how everything was different this time. Demand would never fade. The emerging middle classes of the world’s developing nations were hungry and they were ready to pay. Plus, as if that wasn’t enough, new government policies in favour of biofuels had shot […] Read more
insects
Canola, Production

12 insect tips for canola

Use these management tips throughout the growing season for effective, economic and practical insect control

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Diamondback moths are in a deadly battle in canola fields — yet their primary adversary isn’t the grower. In fact, producers are learning to leave low populations of diamondback moth larvae alone because, in many cases, well-established beneficial insects will prevent the pest from becoming a major economic problem. The main parasitoids of diamondback moth […] Read more
man in canola field
Production

Phosphate only in seed row

Fertilizer burn in the seed row causes hidden and costly 
damage in many canola fields, contributing to lower seed survival. Phosphorus is the only nutrient that shows any net benefit in the seed row with canola when soil levels are low

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Canola is very sensitive to seed-placed fertilizer. We don’t know what percentage of canola seeds are lost to fertilizer burn or toxicity, given that many factors influence seed mortality, but generally, the more fertilizer placed with the seed, the more seeds and seedlings that will die. “Non-viable seeds and seedlings are a lost opportunity of […] Read more
images of canola, potato, wheat, and lentils
Production

Abundant choices

There’s no shortage of crop protection choices for just about any problem a grower might face in the 2014 season, including a number of new options registered in time for this spring

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Reading Time: 4 minutes We are a fortunate lot, here in Canada, when it comes to controlling pests in our crops. We have access to literally hundreds of products which can be used alone or in tank mixes to control just about any weed, insect, or disease we might encounter in any crop we are likely to grow. In […] Read more
slerotinia on a stem
Crops, Production

Disease geometry

If all three sides of the disease triangle are present, you could have trouble on your hands in the coming growing season

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Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s pretty much impossible to say in advance exactly what crop diseases are going to be present in your fields this coming season — but you can still have a solid idea of what to look for when the time comes. That’s because crop diseases are greatly influenced by weather and history, and when these […] Read more
Two men standing in a canola field.
Crops, Production

Make more money from fertilizer

Canola is a nutrient-hungry crop and fertilizer is the biggest input investment for most canola growers. The 4 Rs of fertilizer management — right source, right rate, right time, right place — will improve the economic sustainability of the crop

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Lower canola prices will force growers to rethink their fertilizer investments and focus on inputs that provide a proven return on investment. For canola, those nutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur. At the FarmTech Conference in Edmonton in January, I moderated a panel that included all eight Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialists along with […] Read more
Bee pollinating a purple flower.
Production

Keeping bees

Neonicotinoid pesticides are under the spotlight following bee kills — but it’s not all doom and gloom

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The southern Ontario spring of 2012 was an early one, and corn growers got busy as soon as they could get their planters out into the fields. Beekeepers got their troops mobilized early too, but high hopes for a good season quickly evaporated as the body count started piling up around the hives. It turned […] Read more

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