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Canola Digest magazine now has its own website – canoladigest.ca – with articles posted as stand-alone items for quick and easy reading, linking, sharing and searching…
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Get the agronomy, marketing, and management information you need to boost your bottom line at one of Alberta Canola's 12 events across the province in November…
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Save the date for four producer meetings being held in four different locations over four days. November 14, Moose Jaw November 15, Swift Current November 16, Rosetown November 17, North Battleford…
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CanolaWeek comprises Canola Industry Meeting on Tuesday, December 5, Canola Discovery Forum on Wednesday, December 6, and Canola Innovation Day on Thursday, December 7. The venue is the Hilton Garden Inn, Saskatoon…
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This quiz includes a link to the video "Clubroot of canola: Disease cycle" and the resources at clubroot.ca. Take time to learn as much as possible about this disease and how to stop it…
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Farmers with standing or just-cut crop still have an opportunity to scout for clubroot. Take advantage of an opportunity to scout while waiting to swath or combine. Although clubroot can be detected for some time after swathing, it becomes more difficult to recognize as galls decay…
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You have two choices in this situation: Swath now or wait. Swathing now might prevent further seed loss if severe frost damage will soon cause pods to pop open and pedicels to snap. You could have shriveled seeds and high green counts, but that might be better than the potential losses from waiting. But if frost did not kill the…
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Get out there and count your canola stubble! Counting stubble density in the fall can help growers determine if their spring seeding rate was adequate to reach the crop’s yield potential…
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The best method, even with bin monitoring cables, is to remove about a third of the canola. This disrupts the moisture cycle and helps to stop any heating or spoilage that may have begun in the central core. While unloading, feel and smell canola as it comes out of the bin…