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Canola, Crops

Stoller adds products for its Canola 100 effort

Ag In Motion Plots: Boosting yields with micro-nutrients

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Stoller Enterprises Limited applied several of its products to its Canola 100 plot at the Ag In Motion farm show near Saskatoon last July. There are 140 products in Stoller’s portfolio, and they added as many of these as they could to increase their plot yields. Kip Workman, Stoller Enterprises’ commercial product manager for Canada, explains Stoller’s […] Read more
Canola, Crops

Agrium uses ESN to get to 100 bushels

Ag In Motion Plots: Agrium used its Canola 100 plot at AIM to showcase controlled release fertilizer

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Agrium used its Ag In Motion canola plots to show visitors how ESN controlled release fertilizer can help farmers get to 100 bushels per acre. The plan included a lot of fertilizer. “My intention was to look at growing 100 bushel canola based on crop removal rates, having high rates of phosphate, high rates of […] Read more
Mike Nelson’s sprayer not only applied herbicide and fungicide treatments, but also foliar nutrient products on a 160-acre field ear marked for a canola yield challenge.
Canola, Crops

The Central Alberta experience

Canola 100 Challenge: An Alberta farmer tests practices toward optimizing his canola yield

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Central Alberta farmer, Mike Nelson knows his canola fell short of the magic 100-bushel yield mark for the 2016 Canola 100 Challenge, but the experience made it worthwhile for him to consider the contest again. Nelson, who is part of the family farming operation, Nelson Farms, that includes his father Lorne, brother Matt and brother-in-law […] Read more
Canola challenge comes down to the wire
Canola, Crops

Canola challenge comes down to the wire

Canola 100 Challenge: Will there be a farm with a verified 100-bushel canola yield this season?

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Is there a winner? Stay tuned to learn if any of the 21 Western Canadian farm “finalists” in the first Canola 100 challenge actually hit the target of producing a 100 bushel per acre canola yield in 2016. The results and winner, if any, will be announced at the annual Agri-Trend Agrology Farm Forum conference […] Read more
Kris Mayerle took a shot at the 100-bushel canola challenge on his farm, KRM Farms at Tisdale, Sask.
Canola, Crops

The Saskatchewan experience

Canola 100 Challenge: The contest might be a personal challenge to see what it takes to produce top yield

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Kris Mayerle says a 100-bushel canola yield just doesn’t fall into your grain cart. While cranking the nutrients onto a 100-acre field on his northeast Saskatchewan farm did increase yields in 2016, he’d still like to find the practices that are needed to hit or at least close in more on that elusive high-yield target. Mayerle, who along with family members […] Read more
Consider trials and disease when choosing canola
Canola, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Consider trials and disease when choosing canola

Agronomy tips... from the field

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This past season brought an increase in canola disease infection levels across the Prairies. That means there’s a lot of disease inoculum sitting in your fields that will be there when you plant your next crop. Plus, we know that blackleg and clubroot are also shifting to overcome older genetics. How does this impact your […] Read more
Dr. Jim Radtke, Cibus’ senior vice president, product development, explains that Cibus’ breeding method results in SU-tolerant, non-GMO canola.
Canola, Crops, Features

SU-tolerant canola from Cibus

Cibus’ sulfonylurea-tolerant

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Cibus, a U.S. company, is bringing a new sulfonylurea-tolerant canola to the market. Cibus developed SU-tolerant canola using non-transgenic breeding technologies. That is, breeding, without introducing foreign genetic material. As Dr. Jim Radtke, Cibus’ senior vice president, product development, says, we are “making changes in plants without incorporating foreign DNA and thus the plants are […] Read more
January 2017 canola, including 20-day moving average and (in separate graph at bottom) RSI, from June through to Nov. 24, 2016. (Barchart.com)
Canola, Crops, Markets

Canola nearing chart resistance

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CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts have trended higher for the past two weeks, with a rally in Chicago Board of Trade soyoil providing an added boost on Wednesday. While the nearby technical signals may be pointing higher, canola is also nearing major chart resistance. The January contract closed Thursday at $527.40 per […] Read more
New canola varieties for 2017
Canola, Crops, News

New canola varieties for 2017

With 18 new varieties to choose from, growers have a lot of decisions to make

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Farmers shopping around for canola seed for next spring are spoiled for choice. We’ve rounded up a list of 18 new varieties hitting the market for the first time in 2017. These 18 come in addition to the high-yielding varieties we’ve already been seeing in western Canadian fields for the past decade. This roundup of […] Read more
combining wheat
Crops, Weather

Guenther: Sask. canola, wheat crops still stranded

Spring harvest likely for some Prairie farmers

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In north-western Saskatchewan, farmers are crossing their fingers that warm weather will hold long enough for them to get the last of their crops in the bin. There’s “more than enough” canola and wheat in the fields in the Glaslyn area, says Dave Shepherd, location manager at AgriTeam. Shepherd estimates that 30 per cent of […] Read more

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