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When you look at Canola Performance Trial data, look at how a variety yields at every site, not just those closest to your farm

For the variety you have chosen to reach its full potential, it is important to get an adequate number of healthy plants growing. Agriculture

Sclerotinia and blackleg remain the top two most important canola diseases, but aster yellows are a hot topic after a bad year in 2012.

Generally pleasant fall weather provides an opportunity for fall weed control, and for soil sampling. When it comes to soil sampling, how the samples

Weed control can still be achieved after a frost if no more than 40% of the original leaf tissue is damaged. Herbicide should be

It has been a very dry two months, as the map shows. Several products with high carryover risk are broken down almost exclusively through

Dry soils will be difficult to penetrate, and tillage will destroy standing stubble and its snow-catching capability. We can’t predict winter weather, but this

Not a regular soil sampler? If you’re interested in starting, this is as good a time as any to start. The more you test,

The next issue of Canola Digest, the November issue, will include a Diagnostic Dilemmas feature about a grower puzzled by very low seedling emergence

A long fall provides a few extra weeks to look back on the year that was — to reassess plant stands, fertilizer rates and

Many canola growers harvested lower than expected yields in 2012. So what happened? Why did the canopy look good enough to yield much higher

July was very hot, which is bad news for a cool season crop like canola. When daytime highs reach 28-29 C or higher, pollen