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May 2017 canola futures chart.
Canola, Columns, Markets

A price chart is worth a thousand words

What can we learn from a look back at this May 2017 canola futures chart?

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I was looking at this May 2017 canola futures charts the other day to remind myself just how much we can learn from them. It is a lot easier to figure out the trends and patterns on a chart after they’ve happened than it is to decipher what will happen while it is happening. Cyclical […] Read more
Kochia not confirmed ‘triple resistant’ — yet
Crops, Features

Kochia not confirmed ‘triple resistant’ — yet

Producers should take action against kochia based on threat severity

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Triple-resistant” kochia — kochia resistant to herbicides in Groups 2, 4 and 9 — hasn’t yet been confirmed in Alberta despite recent media reports, says Hugh Beckie, a weed scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Surveys have turned up two-way resistant kochia, specifically Group 2 plus Group 4, and Group 2 plus Group 9 resistant weeds, but […] Read more
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
Syngenta’s Willy Ruegg in a greenhouse full of canola plants.
Crops, Features

Research, development and discussion

Researchers develop crop 
protection products, regulators 
limit use and consumers worry

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Syngenta is a household name for farmers so I was quite excited at the opportunity to visit its Crop Protection plant in Stein, AG, Switzerland, this January with the Swiss Farm Writers Association. The Stein plant is the third largest globally and concentrates on research and development of fungicide and insecticide products. Less than three […] 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
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
Cabbage seedpod weevils are attracted to the buds on early canola plants. They feed on the buds, migrating as the crop comes into bloom.
Canola, Crops

When to spray cabbage seedpod weevil

If you have to spray for the cabbage seedpod 
weevil, get the timing right

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The first time Alberta grain farmer Jay Schultz remembers hearing about cabbage seedpod weevil was in 2005 at the University of Alberta when Dr. Lloyd Dosdall warned that it could become a major pest in the province. Schultz, who farms 6,000 acres near Standard, Alta., said that he never really paid attention, that is, until […] Read more

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