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CCC agronomy specialists have a new project for 2013 — the Ultimate Canola Challenge (UCC). The underlying challenge is to follow all best management

Have you met the Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialist for your region? You have many opportunities to connect with them in a year.

Highlights from CanoLAB in Saskatoon include: —Why canola must have sulphur —The “hidden hunger” of phosphate deficiency —Elevated risk for herbicide carryover in 2013

When fields are sulphur deficient, canola that receives only nitrogen fertilizer (front left in photo) can yield less than canola that receives no fertilizer

A 50-bushel crop can remove more than 50 pounds of P205 per acre. Growers using only seed-placed phosphate at a rate of 15 pounds

A dry summer and fall in certain areas of the Prairies created a high risk situation for herbicide carryover this spring. High spring moisture

Both of these trays were seeded with kochia and then sprayed with glyphosate after emergence. The difference: The tray in front was seeded with

These photos from canola plots grown in clubroot-infested soils in Quebec show how rotation, especially for MS and S varieties, improves yield. Rotation also

Delayed arrival of southerly winds in 2013, together with the colder start to the growing season, may lessen the risks associated with aster leafhoppers,

Many things can cause missing pods on a stem, including heat, drought, herbicide damage, sulphur deficiency, boron deficiency, male sterility and insects.

Seeding earlier increases the chance of a killing frost on seedlings but it also limits the chance of heat stress in summer. When seeding

DNA for the organism that causes clubroot was detected in soils from two Manitoba fields, and a brassica plant grown in these soils in