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The later hail occurs in the season, the more damage it can do to yield. That said, flowering canola can, with enough time, recover

When a strong wind blows off a lot of canola flowers, the crop can recover fully by flowering longer.

If a field has regular rains or high humidity or both from two weeks before flowering and through flowering, then infection will likely occur.

canolaPALOOZA in Lacombe this week had many great features, including a canola-themed edition of Family Feud.

Lygus is one insect you may find in canola this week, but spraying lygus before pod stages rarely provides an economic benefit. Lygus do

Growers have lots of $5-per-acre treatment options that may or may not provide an economic return in their area or in combination with their

Before spending money on a treatment, growers will need to identify the cause. The Canola Diagnostic Tool can help you work through the possibilities.

By this stage of the season, flea beetle and cutworm risks are lower because crops are bigger and these two insects are in natural

Earliest canola fields are coming into flower, and many areas of the Prairies have more than enough moisture to elevate the sclerotinia stem rot

If you would like a field tested for clubroot as part of the Ministry’s survey please email pestsurveys@gov.sk.ca with your name, phone number, RM

Keys to the spray decision are scouting and timing. The economic threshold is 20 CSPW per 10 sweeps generally across the field. If weevils

Cabbage seedpod weevil and lygus thresholds are based on sweep net counts. Here are three videos that can help with scouting and sweep-netting tips