Agronomy Insights

Do you want the best? Or the best for you?

Canola growers can increase yield and improve profitability with cultivars that suit local growing conditions, the specific farm system and challenges unique to each field. Use our decision tree to think through cultivar selection for 2024.

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Agronomy Insights

How to identify verticillium stripe

The canola disease verticillium stripe is found across the Prairies and is already at yield-damaging levels in Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan. This article provides tips to accurate diagnosis this fall.

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National Canola Marketing Program

Say hello to “Canadian Canola”

Provincial canola grower organizations fulfill their mandate to promote canola within Canada with a new National Canola Marketing Program centred around the loveable, everyday character, “Canadian Canola.”

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Agronomy Insights

Two years to pay off optical spot spray system

This case study describes how one farm uses optical spot spraying technology. Name: Carl deConinck Smith Location: Fiske, Saskatchewan Soil zone: Brown Crops: Canola, peas, lentils, wheat, barley, durum and flax “With our system, we average a quarter litre of glyphosate over the whole field, but put up to 1.25 litres per acre on each...
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Science

Your Provincial Research Leads

As Alberta Canola’s first research director, I have enjoyed the opportunity to do a deep dive into all aspects of our research programs and partnerships driven by grower funding. Beginning with our Grower Engagement Meetings in the fall of 2021, I’ve been helping growers understand the partnerships and funding that drives Alberta Canola’s research program....
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