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Relatively few seedlings emerged. This was uniform across the entire field, and there were no signs of patchiness indicating some areas were affected worse than others.
Canola, Crops, Features

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Poor emergence in canola crop

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the May 19, 2015 issue of Grainews

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In mid-May I got a call from David, who grows 2,000 acres of canola, wheat, soybeans and peas on his farm in southeastern Manitoba. It had been three weeks since David had planted his canola crop, but he was seeing very poor emergence in the field. David had hoped for eight to 10 plants per […] Read more
A ripe canola swath hampered by poor weather sits idle in Saskatchewan. (Oct. 2016)
Canola, Columns

The value of spring-threshed canola

Will it be worth salvaging and selling the canola left out in your field this winter?

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Many growers across the Prairies are facing the reality of canola that’s been left out in fields over winter. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been talking to players in the canola buying and processing industry to find out who will buy spring-threshed canola, and to learn about some of their concerns. Major grain companies […] Read more
How good or bad is that unharvested crop?
Canola, Columns, Hart Attacks

How good or bad is that unharvested crop?

Hart Attacks: Farmers and processors won’t really know until quality is tested

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I am sensing a muffled drum roll in parts of Western Canada right now as a few thousand farmers across central and northern B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan are waiting to see what this unharvested crop looks like, when they do have a chance to get it combined. There were several thousand acres — about 10 […] Read more
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Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola along for ride with soybeans

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CNS Canada — While springtime canola supplies look favourable for prices, bearish oilseed situations elsewhere leave ICE Futures Canada prices straddled with downside, especially ahead of a key production report. “The supply and demand fundamentals on canola are all optimistic, better than they are on most oilseeds,” said Mike Jubinville of ProFarmer Canada. “But let’s […] Read more
Murray Hartman talks plant stand establishment during CanolaLAB at Lakeland College in Vermilion, Alberta
Canola, Crops

Lower canola target plant stands

With newer canola varieties, farmers can hit optimum yields with lower plant counts

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New canola varieties and changing economics have pushed target plant stands lower, says Murray Hartman, oilseed specialist with Alberta Agriculture. The “economic sweet spot” is now four to six plants per square foot, Hartman told farmers and agronomists at the Canola Council of Canada’s CanoLAB in Vermilion, Alberta. Hartman recently reviewed published trial data looking […] Read more
Plants in the affected areas had smaller, thinner leaves. The newest-formed leaves out of the growing point in the problem-area plants were slightly cupped and starting to yellow.
Canola, Crops

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Irregular strips of struggling canola

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the April 4, 2015 issue of Grainews

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In early July I received a phone call from Dwane, a grain farmer at Davin, Sask., who was seeing a peculiar pattern forming in one of his canola fields. Dwane told me that despite some heavy June rains, his early canola establishment had been excellent — he had achieved his target plant density and the […] Read more

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