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It is always good practice to clean the sprayer, especially between pre-seed and in-crop applications. Please read the updated article.

Combining pest control operations to save trips over the field may seem like good economic sense, but consider the following when making this decision:

Buffer zones or strips come in all shapes and sizes, and are designed to protect sensitive areas. Sensitive areas include permanent vegetation to maintain

As part of early-season scouting, assess plant density and percent emergence using the Canola Calculator plant survival calculator.

If soil conditions are dry and seed hasn’t imbibed water to start the germination process, there won’t have been enough water for the seed

The key with a thin stand is to do what it takes to protect those plants. A stand needs a minimum of 4-5 plants

See bare patches like this? Could be cutworms. Include cutworms on the scouting checklist for the first one to three weeks after emergence. Any

Canola harvested last fall and still in on-farm storage can be at risk from heating. Hot outside weather will restart moisture movement within a

Time management, weather, family and economic stresses can pop up often for farmers. Stress can be a big factor in mental health. Contact these

Test your cutworm knowledge with these four questions, including a “dry soils” angle.

Of particular interest are those trajectories that, prior to their arrival in Canada, originated over northwestern and southern USA and Mexico – anywhere diamondback

Start scouting around the time when emergence should occur. Normally by late May, warm soils, decent moisture and 1” seeding depth should produce emergence