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Summer Landscape with a field of yellow flowers. Sunset
Canola, Wheat & Chaff

2015 weather affects 2016 agronomy

Agronomy tips... from the field

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Now that 2015 is pretty much under our belts, I think we can say, in general, that weather conditions got off to a fairly good start and then turned unusually dry for the balance of the season. And when the rains eventually did come, they came at the wrong time — creating challenging conditions at […] Read more
blackleg infection on a canola stem
Canola, Features

‘Canola and snow’ is not profitable

New research says mixing cultivars does not mitigate the effects of continuous canola

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Reconsider those plans to seed back-to-back to canola this spring, recommend Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) scientists. And they have new data to back that up. Dr. Neil Harker and other study researchers recently published the results of their five-year of the effects of continuous canola crops in The Canadian Journal of Plant Science. The […] Read more
On June 8, 2015, the best of the canola crop didn’t look great. I have no pictures of the worst. That was just a lot of bare ground. Who wants a picture of bare ground?
Canola, Columns, Crops

Diary of a tough year for canola

The sordid story of a Saskatchewan canola crop, from seedbed preparation to the final sale

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As I was preparing to write this, the Dec. 1 issue of Grainews arrived with Lee Hart’s front page article: “Holy Canola! A 74 bushel average yield.” No 74 bushels here. My story is: the land is rolling dark brown, loam texture, glacial till with some stones and many sloughs. It has been continuous cropped […] Read more
holding canola seeds
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Think of disease when choosing canola seed

Agronomy tips... from the field

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We all know that top-end yield is ultimately what drives canola seed selections, because that’s what pays your bills. That’s why I’d encourage you to look at last year’s Canola Performance Trials, provincial seed guides and any public trials to get the fullest picture of how a hybrid has performed. Look at several years of […] Read more
Devil’s trumpet of known as Jimsonweed Flower
Crops

Look out for the Devil’s trumpet

Jimsonweed, also known as Devil’s trumpet is a highly toxic weed

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According to provincial weed specialists in Alberta, jimsonweed, a highly toxic and problematic weed species, was found in three Alberta canola fields (Barrhead, Leduc and Westlock) last month. Growers are currently working with their provincial departments and the CFIA on an eradication strategy, although they are not considering it a major problem at this moment. […] Read more
Agrium subsidiary CPS official launched Proven Seed PV 580 GC, a multigenic clubroot resistant canola variety, on October 27.
Canola, Crops

New CPS variety fights clubroot

Crop Protection Services' new canola seed is the first "true" multigenic variety

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Looking for a new tool for battling clubroot? Agrium subsidiary Crop Production Services (CPS) says help is on the way for 2016. The company launched Proven Seed PV 580 GC, the first “true” multigenic clubroot resistant variety, on October 27. PV 580 GC, a mid-season variety, is bred for resistance to the most common clubroot […] Read more
The Canola 100 challenge is achievable
Canola, Crops

The Canola 100 challenge is achievable

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If Manitoba canola grower Ed Rempel was 10 years younger and had more than one field, he’d be all over the Canola 100 challenge. Even as it stands, he may still throw his air seeder into the ring and join what is expected to be a few hundred Canadian farmers involved in a three-year competition […] Read more
Holy canola! A 74-bushel average yield
Crops, News

Holy canola! A 74-bushel average yield

The Canadian canola yield average is still somewhere around 35 bushels per acre, but 
a lot of farmers are consistently seeing yields 
of 50, 60, and even into the mid-70s

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With one southern Alberta farmer this year hitting a 74-bushel yield average on 320 acres of InVigor canola, the seemingly lofty challenge of hitting a 100-bushel yield in Western Canada sometime over the next three years may indeed be possible. The farmer we’ll refer to as Norman Napus — he asked not to be identified […] Read more
Guests touring the Bayer canola seed processing plant in Lethbridge in early October look at part of the process used to clean and size canola seed.
Canola, Crops

Bayer seed plant was born ready

After a delayed official opening, InVigor seed plant preparing seed for 2016 season

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Marcus Weidler hopes there aren’t any more late spring panic situations forcing a scramble to produce treated canola seed to replant two million frosted acres, but he says Bayer CropScience’s newly expanded canola seed processing plant will be better prepared if there is. The southern Alberta plant near Lethbridge with a recently completed $15.6 million expansion was put to […] Read more
It’s important to use the right sieves when figuring out dockage in wheat or canola.
Crops, Features

Digging into the details of dockage

Dockage can be an expensive issue on your farm. Learn what it is and how it’s measured

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Your grain is in the bin but your job is far from over. Now it’s time to sell that crop. But how do you know you’re getting a fair shake at the local elevator? A little knowledge can go a long way, and so we took a look at the dockage procedures for wheat and […] Read more

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