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Growers are showing new energy in harvest loss management this week, sparked in large part by Angela Brackenreed’s excellent cover article in the September

Canola Performance Trials for this year are still being measured and harvested, but growers wanting to make seed decisions now can go to www.canolaperformancetrials.ca.

Insect threats are minimal at this stage of the season, but if you have late fields and an insect hot spot — say for

Foxtail barley is one weed that seems to be on the rise. Foxtail barley is best controlled in the fall, using glyphosate to manage

Alberta has started an intense survey to check fields for clubroot pathotype 5x, which is able to overcome all forms of resistance on the

Man, snow?! Snow doesn’t do as much damage to standing canola as the frost that comes with it. If frost is light, moisture from

Here are two WeatherFarm maps. Click the map for a link to the original on the WeatherFarm site. The frost map is for yesterday

How are your post-swath disease scouting skills. The video above will help you answer the quiz questions this week. You can watch the video

With light frost in the forecast, crop left standing will still have a chance to mature further and yield more. A heavy frost will

As we progress further into September, growers get more anxious to swath. Swathing at 60% seed colour change is still preferred, but by this

The key harvest management issue with snow on standing canola concerns not so much the precipitation (although heavy snow can cause lodging) but the

This time of year, mature canola seeds can take a long time to turn brown or black. Growers wondering why seed colour change is