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April 4, 2012

Put extra input investment into nitrogen

If you’ve budgeted for hybrid seed and optimal herbicide, insecticide and fertilizer applications, and you’d like to spend a little extra to push yields,
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April 4, 2012

Volunteers with stacked HT are out there

Canola volunteers with resistance to more than one herbicide are probably more common than you think. If you’ve only grown Liberty Link canola, for
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April 4, 2012

Clean new equipment: Keep clubroot at bay

If you don’t have clubroot, be sure any used or demo’d equipment you buy is clean before you bring it home. Clean equipment before
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April 4, 2012

Canola trade and oil promotion videos

Click here to view an important video about the Canola Market Access Plan. This video as well as the video embedded below played during
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March 9, 2012

CanoLAB 2012 highlights

Most of you did not get to attend CanoLAB 3-D in Edmonton this week, so this edition of Canola Watch will bring you the
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March 9, 2012

Station 1: Weed control tips and herbicide management

This article contains 5 quick weed control tips. Tip 1: Herbicide efficacy often goes down in dry conditions because most plants — weeds and
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March 9, 2012

Station 2: Bertha, diamondback and their natural enemies

Growers cannot expect natural enemies to provide enough immediate control to reduce the pest threat to canola in that year. Growers will still have
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March 9, 2012

Station 3: Lygus and its natural enemies

Our current economic threshold tables for lygus in canola may be too low when applied to current canola production systems across the Prairies. If
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March 9, 2012

Diagnosing nutrient deficiency

Visual assessment of symptoms is not good enough for an accurate diagnosis because symptoms can have many causes. The station hosts used purpling as
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March 9, 2012

Station 5: Potassium, Boron and Calcium

For every 5 pounds of nitrogen a canola plant takes up, it needs 4 pounds of potassium. Most Prairie soils still have adequate potassium
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March 9, 2012

Station 6: Canola diseases

Seed treatments are, for the most part, very effective against canola seedling diseases fusarium, pythium and rhizoctonia. But plant pathologists expect that continued tight
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March 9, 2012

Station 7: Diagnostic tips

The key messages from this station: —Keep an open mind when scouting a field for problems. Symptoms can have many causes, and it can
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