Insects

Here are five important points to help with flea beetle scouting and management: 1. Flea beetle damage can advance quickly. 2. Flea beetles will

Flea beetle pressure is quite high in many locations. Spraying may be necessary. If damage was quick and devastating, growers may face a reseeding

Flea beetle thresholds don’t change with frost, but frost may have changed the crop assessment situation. Here’s how….

Slow canola emergence due to cool soils can increase the risks from seedling diseases and from flea beetles.

The Canola Council of Canada agronomy team came up with 12 agronomy priorities for 2015, and then ranked them. Here are the top 10,

Flea beetles feeding on pods is unlikely to cause an economic loss. Entomologists have not set thresholds for late season flea beetle feeding, but

Thrips cause curled or twisted pods on canola and can also cause damage like that shown in the photo above. The good news is

Whether you’re waiting to get into the field or already cutting your crop, having a proper storage facility is critical. If you had last

You may be sick of reading about it, but that’s better than being sick of finding it. Lygus bug continues to be a hot

Lygus bugs are still at high numbers in some regions, mostly in Alberta. If sweep netting shows high lygus numbers, here are five considerations

Many canola fields are within 5 to 10 days of swathing, which limits the choices for insecticides based on pre-harvest intervals. Here are the