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What are the probabilities that your area will get a -2°C frost this week or next week?

While pre-harvest scouting for diseases and crop staging, keep a look out for weeds. Challenges with timely and effective weed control earlier in the

This quiz describes five timely scenarios where decisions could influence profitability of a canola crop.

Always inspect seeds in side-branches as well, particularly in fields with low plant populations that have a large amount of branching.

How many days delayed am I going to be with straight combining versus swathing? It depends on your expectation of “ready”. This article describes

Measure combine losses and then make adjustments to limit those losses. This puts more canola in the bin and reduces the volunteer canola seedbank

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

Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialist Ian Epp and Alberta farmer Melissa Damiani help host Jay Whetter describe timely tips to produce a clean

Canola grower organizations in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta encourage farmers and agronomists to do more field testing.

You see plants ripening prematurely. Why are they doing that? To answer that question accurately requires a few scouting steps.

Once canola plants are swathed, the seed does not continue to fill. Seed that is swathed before accumulating its full complement of oil and

Around 60 per cent seed colour change (swath timing) is the best time to scout for blackleg as the basal cankers, which cause significant