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One step is to sharpen chopper blades to improve residue management, especially for fields in cereals now that will be in canola next year.

Check patches of pre-mature ripened canola to identify the cause. It could be blackleg, clubroot, sclerotinia stem rot (pictured) or something else entirely. Here’s

Glyphosate is registered for pre-harvest perennial weed control in canola. Glyphosate is to be applied when the majority of seeds are yellow to brown

In dry conditions: Threshold tables for lygus indicate that if canola is $12 per bushel and spray costs $8 per acre, the threshold at

Aster yellows is a phytoplasma infection that causes misshapen pods and flower buds. Most fields in most years have less than 1% infection, which

With severe hail after flowering, plants can start to regrow, going through flowering stages again. This really sets back maturity, but with enough time,

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture is planning its annual canola disease survey. Part of the survey involves soil sampling and DNA-based testing for the

Surviving weeds are growing strong and some of them — like kochia and wild oats — start to look really obvious by this time

Patches that seem to be maturing early while the rest of the crop is still green do warrant closer inspection. With all the rainfall

If it does not straighten up, the result can be higher levels of sclerotinia stem rot and harvest challenges.

Some of the earliest canola fields will show seed colour change over the next two weeks. For those growers, we provide this short primer