canola digest January 2025
The Editor's Desk

Optimum rate

Variable rate (VR), as a phrase, is thoroughly uninspiring. Boring. People want to hear about VR about as much as they want to hear about the 50-year-old wool suit I bought at Value Village for $22. I see that now. But optimum rate! That inspires. In October, I wrote a LinkedIn post about a breakfast...
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Alberta Bulletin

Alberta Canola encourages growers to attend its Conference, AGM and Research Symposium on January 22-23 in Red Deer. At the AGM, members will vote on key issues affecting Alberta Canola.

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Saskatchewan Bulletin

Top Notch Farming extension meetings agenda includes on-farm research trial results for 2024. SaskOilseeds is looking for on-farm research trial cooperators for 2025. Participants get expert help to conduct trials using their own equipment and under their unique farm conditions and practices.

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Manitoba Bulletin

Canola Morning is January 21 at AgDays in Brandon, with presentations on insect management, cultivar selection and canola price outlook. Verticillium stripe research will help manage the disease causing yield loss in many Manitoba canola fields.

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Feature

Agronomists rank temperature as top risk factor

Two men talk by a truck in the middle of a canola field.

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.

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