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Canola, Crops

Syngenta exits canola seed business

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Canola growers checking out Syngenta Canada’s 2018 seed guide for Western Canada will notice canola by its absence. Syngenta, which entered the Prairie canola seed market in 2013 and by this spring had six hybrid varieties on offer, said in a statement it has “recently taken the decision to exit the canola seed business.” The […] Read more
Be ready to scout and control flea beetles
Canola, Crops, Features

Be ready to scout and control flea beetles

Flea beetles move fast and do a lot of damage. Be sure to keep ahead of them in your canola crops

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Flea beetles are easily the most chronically damaging insect pest in western Canadian canola. Damage results in yield losses estimated at $300 million each year. To limit damage, experts recommend acting early when an average level of defoliation level of 25 per cent or more is reached. Early action necessary According to Greg Sekulic, an […] Read more
Play it safe with pre-harvest glyphosate
Crops

Play it safe with pre-harvest glyphosate

Follow the label and consult grain buyers for guidelines

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When it comes to pre-harvest perennial weed control, Prairie farmers need to play it safe this fall. As of this year, grain from crops treated with glyphosate might have market access concerns, according to the Keeping it Clean program, a joint initiative of the Canola Council of Canada, Cereals Canada and Pulse Canada. “Glyphosate residues […] Read more
Amara beetles hunt and chew on cutworms at CanoLAB in Vermilion. Amara beetles belong to the 
Carabid family.
Canola, Crops, Features

Increasing yields with natural landscapes

Researchers say maintaining some natural habitat next to your fields can bring yield increases

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Researchers are looking at how natural landscapes can bump yield in nearby canola fields in Alberta, and they want your yield data. Previous research, done at various locations around the world, has shown that native habitat bestows yield gains and cuts insecticide applications on neighbouring farmland, says Gregory Sekulic, agronomist with the Canola Council of […] Read more
Red-backed cutworms.
Crops, Features

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

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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
Striped flea beetles on canola.
Crops, News

Fair weather ups seeding efforts in Sask.

But "ferocious" flea beetles seen feasting on canola

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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

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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
A striped flea beetle on a canola leaf.
Canola, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Don’t rush canola into cooler soils

Agronomy tips... from the field

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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
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

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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

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