The Canola Council of Canada, in its 2024 survey of agronomy providers, asked what canola agronomy risk factors will be big concerns over the next five years. Temperature stress was the top answer. Herbicide-resistant weeds, top answer in the previous survey, was second.
Our panelists share tools and practices – “innovations” – they added recently to improve efficiency, logistics, human resources or profitability. The best ideas tackle more than one of these. As the responses show, innovation is a broad term.
Breanna Miller and Jay Whetter, two Canola Council of Canada employees, spent the day on a National Circle for Indigenous Agriculture and Food (NCIAF) tour in August. They made a short presentation about canola and spent the rest of the day connecting with Indigenous farmers and National Circle staff.
Harmeet Singh Chawla leads one of four new grower-funded verticillium stripe studies. Chawla will create genetic markers for the most aggressive verticillium stripe isolates. Test labs can use these markers to qualify the virulence level of isolates in a field. Canola breeders can use them to select cultivars with resistance to these most virulent isolates.