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Scout early for best cutworm control in canola crops

Cutworms may be poised to damage the 2017 canola crop. Be on the lookout for them

By Melanie Epp June 2, 2017

Last year, higher than normal cutworm feeding was reported in several locations in major canola-growing regions. Cutworms have the potential to do incredible damage in canola crops. There are five economically significant cutworm species in the Prairies: the pale western, redbacked, army, darksided and dingy cutworm. The first two are the most predominant species. Pale western is […] Read more

Crops, News

Fair weather ups seeding efforts in Sask.

But "ferocious" flea beetles seen feasting on canola

By Lisa Guenther June 2, 2017

A stretch of good weather has allowed most farmers in the Turtleford area to wrap up seeding, say local agronomists. Ian Weber, sales manager with Warrington AgroDynamic, estimates 90 per cent of farmers in the Turtleford area are done, or very close to done, seeding. Farmers in the St. Walburg area, about 30 km north […] Read more

Canola plants were stunted or missing at the edges of and inside the small circles.

Canola, Crops, Features

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Crop circles made by space invaders or salinity?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the March 7, 2017 issue of Grainews

By Josefine Bartlett May 25, 2017

Jim, a Fairview-area producer, dropped into our office for coffee one morning in early October last year. When he spotted me, he called me over, eager to show me some photos he had taken of one of his canola fields. Jim said he’d finished swathing the day before, and he found something unusual in this […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Don’t rush canola into cooler soils

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Rob Bishop May 24, 2017

Your flea beetle management strategy this season is going to depend on what type of weather conditions and soil temperatures experienced in the days leading up to seeding. Striped flea beetles are going to be a significant threat to your emerging canola, and were responsible for about 90 per cent of the feeding damage we […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Soggy forecast worries Prairie farmers in race to seed crops

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News May 23, 2017

Winnipeg | Reuters — Heavy rain forecast for the soggiest parts of the Prairies this week is likely to further delay seeding in the world’s biggest canola-exporting country, meteorologists say. The rain, forecast to hit Alberta and Saskatchewan on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, would be the latest blow to farmers who could not harvest all […] Read more

Spring fieldwork in between Glaslyn and Livelong, in northwest Sask. Wet weather has delayed spring field work for many farmers in the Glaslyn area.

Crops, News

Seeding progress in Sask. runs the gamut

Many farmers playing catch-up due to wet conditions, dealing with last year's crops

By Lisa Guenther May 19, 2017

About 30 per cent of the 2017 crop is seeded, according to the latest Saskatchewan Agriculture Crop Report. But while the province as a whole is close to the five-year average, actual seeding progress varies tremendously across the province and even within regions. Farmers in the southeast have 60 per cent of the crop in […] Read more

Seven days after Ken sprayed his herbicide-tolerant canola crop, most of the plants in one field were dead or dying.

Canola, Crops, Features

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: What caused this 80 per cent loss in canola?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the February 21, 2017 issue of Grainews

By Jason Sauchuk May 19, 2017

Ken, a central Alberta producer who farms 2,000 acres of cereals and oilseeds, in addition to 150 head of cattle, called me after he discovered 80 per cent of the canola plants he’d seeded in one field were dead in the seed row. He thought the problem might be a sprayer issue, since a prominent […] Read more

New growth on a canola plant following a frost indicates the seedling has survived. (Canola Council of Canada photo)

Canola, Crops, Weather

Take time to judge frost damage on canola

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 19, 2017

After temperatures Thursday dropped as low as -5 C in parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, growers who’ve already seeded may be wondering whether emerging canola plants have survived. It’s best not to write off those seedlings right away, according to the Canola Council of Canada in a Canola Watch newsletter on Friday. It can take […] Read more

Corey Loessin feels fortunate he got the 2016 crop off last fall. If conditions dry out and temperature warms a bit he should be on track for the 2017 seeding season on his Radisson, Sask., farm.

Crops, Features

Farmers facing mixed bag of conditions

Farmer Panel: Most farmers are on track for seeding, but many are dealing with last year’s crop

By Lee Hart May 18, 2017

On schedule with one-third of the crop seeded, still about a week away, and scrambling to get some of last year’s crop harvested while working to get the 2017 crop in the ground — these are the range of reports from western Canadian farmers as of early May as they look at the cropping season […] Read more

This is a photo of the female of the new “anonymous” midge species.

Canola, Crops, News

A new species of midge lands on the Prairies

Researchers say this  new “anonymous” midge is not an imminent concern, but it’s worth watching

By Angela Lovell May 16, 2017

An anonymous midge species has been identified in Saskatchewan and central Alberta. The new species is similar to Swede midge (a species already present in Saskatchewan), but to this point does not appear to have caused significant, widespread damage in canola crops. Researchers are still trying to find out more about the as yet unnamed […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle markets mostly higher

U.S. grains: Chicago corn, soybeans and wheat firm ahead of crop estimate

Canola groups disappointed in Carney’s plan to help growers, biofuel

GFM Network News