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We had a “follow up question” to last week’s article “Hail damage: Economic loss depends on cro stage.” The grower was asking about foliar

Want to see how a foliar nutrient application helps a hailed crop? Leave a check strip. Want to see whether a novel treatment provided

Two-hit wonder. Does your canola really need a second in-crop herbicide application? Only certain circumstances — like the one photographed above — make it

Click “read more” to compare this map with growing degree days (GDDs) for 2013 at this time, and see why this information is important

In this week’s quiz, we ask you to identify five weeds — including the one above. With the answers, we also provide useful agronomy

Growers who usually spray twice may not need that second pass this year if the canopy has closed, weeds are behind the crop, and

The longer a herbicide sits in a sprayer, the greater the risk that it is going to hang up in the tank. Sprayers should

Early mornings and evenings when conditions can be the best for spraying can also be the worst because of possible air temperature inversions. Air

Research has confirmed the presence of a different clubroot pathotype in the Edmonton region and none of the commercially available clubroot resistant varieties in

Striped flea beetles, shown above, seem to have become the dominant species in many regions, with crucifer species harder to find. This has been

Cutworm scouting begins with a walk through the field looking for bare patches, chewing damage in foliage, or clipped plants. If you find patches

PAMI, with funding from the provincial canola growers organizations, is running a storage project this summer to test the best management practice for canola