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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
Marcel van Staveren (left), shown here along with his harvest crew, has already planned out most of his acres for 2016.
Crops, News

Seeding decisions made, now waiting for spring

Farmers planning to hold their rotations steady with no major swings

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Now that combines are shut down for the season, western Canadian farmers have a pretty good idea of what they will be growing in 2016, say producers contacted for the November Farmer Panel. They all plan to leave a bit of room for last-minute decisions — depending on markets and spring seeding conditions — but […] Read more
The low-down on new canola hybrids
Canola, Wheat & Chaff

The low-down on new canola hybrids

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When making your seed buying decision for 2016, do your homework and check out the latest canola performance data and look at a variety’s entire agronomic package on top of the yield numbers. For my money, your best source is going to be the CPT (Canola Performance Trials), available online and through provincial seed guides, and […] Read more
Canola, Markets

Canola testing chart support

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CE Futures Canada canola contracts settled at their weakest levels in over a month on Oct. 29, and could be poised for further losses from a chart standpoint. The most active January contract settled at $471.20 per tonne on Oct. 29, which was below all of the major moving indicators and the weakest level for […] Read more
Canola, Crops

Scorching heat delays India’s rapeseed sowing

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Mumbai / Reuters – Above-normal temperatures have delayed rapeseed sowing in India’s top producing region by more than a fortnight and restricted acreage expansion, even though prices are trading near record highs, industry officials said. The delays are helping support rapeseed prices and could force the world’s biggest edible oil importer to increase overseas purchases of […] Read more
bee on canola flower
Crops, Features

Farmers can manage bee risk

While neonicitoids poise risks to bees, farmers and the ag industry can manage these risks

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Neonicotinoids pose risks to bees in three ways, says a researcher. But farmers and the ag industry can manage the biggest risks, he told delegates at the International Rapeseed Conference in Saskatoon this past summer. Dr. Udo Heimbach researches pesticide use and environmental effects with Germany’s Julius Kuhn-Institut. He presented research studying neonics’ effects on […] Read more

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