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Numbers for August-emerging flea beetles have to be very high — perhaps 100 per plant — before economic losses occur. Some patches might be

This article runs through a series of questions and scenarios, a bit like “choose your own adventure”, to help farmers and agronomists come up

You have been actively scouting and found clubroot early. The disease is confined to “patches” or small areas in your field, typically around field

A pre-harvest spray to help prepare canola for straight combining may not be required if hot, dry days allow for dry down of the

We don’t expect you to be able to accurately identify problems or answer agronomy questions based on drive-by scouting, and that’s the point of

Lodging is when plants fall over, making them more difficult to harvest. Key plant characteristics that affect lodging risk are the strength of the

Clear patches of canola plants that are ripening prematurely could be diseased. These are obvious places to start a pre-harvest disease survey.

Canola fields swathed at 60 per cent seed colour change (SCC) on the main stem can yield eight per cent more than fields swathed

What is the goal with a pre-harvest application? This article discusses tips and solutions for weed control versus desiccation. If the problem is uneven

What is an acceptable amount of canola combine loss for your farm? To answer that question for your farm, you must first figure out

Researchers have identified at least 36 clubroot pathotypes in Western Canada, and roughly half are not controlled by the common clubroot resistance source –

Some farms are seeing more lygus than usual, but most counts are still below thresholds. James Tansey, entomologist for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture,