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Blackleg close up. A new CCC video takes you down to the microscopic level to see how blackleg infects canola and how resistance works.

Here are the growing degree days (Base 0°C) for the Prairies from April 1 to August 4, 2014.

Pre-harvest scouting is upon us. How are your pre-harvest disease ID skills? Here is a quick test.

A vivid new video from the Canola Council of Canada zooms in on blackleg, showing how the canola disease infects a plant, how it

Cutting canola after 50% seed colour change will increase crop yields because side branches have longer to fill and average seed size for the

Specialty headers designed to straight combine canola seem to provide an improvement over standard straight cut headers. These specialty headers have the cutterbar out

Late season hail can damage pods and increase the shattering risk for those pods. Before jumping the gun and swathing too early, take these

Lygus hotspots: Lygus numbers are high in some regions, with reports of 70+ per 10 sweeps in some fields in central and northern Alberta.

Lygus schmygus. Sweep net counts approaching thresholds have been reported in many areas across the Prairies, but high counts may not require a spray

This map from StatsCan’s Crop Condition Assessment Program uses NDVI satellite imagery to show crop growth. This map compares growth to July 21 this

Test your worm ID skills with this week’s quiz.

Threshold tables for lygus suggest, for example, that if canola is $12 per bushel and spray costs $8 per acre, the threshold at the