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Management options for heavy residue
Retaining crop residue benefits soil health, erosion management and crop health, but it must be managed to enable best seeding practices and crop establishment the following season.
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On-off strategies for canola aeration
Aeration can sometimes add moisture to grain, not remove it as planned. On-off fan strategies can limit this rewetting, but they do have drawbacks. Constant airflow can be safer and easier – even if the air isn’t drying 100 per cent of the time.
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Variety decisions
Growers have many excellent varieties and traits to choose from. So which combination is best for your fields?
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Full Circle
When Garry Thiel’s father grew rapeseed for the first time in the late 1940s, he straight combined the crop. Granted, this was Polish canola, which had better shatter tolerance than Argentine of the day, but I find it significant that the first inclination for early adopters like the Thiels was to cut and combine in...
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A Hub of activity at canolaPALOOZA
The Canola Research Hub at canolaresearch.ca is a user-interactive database with practical tools designed to return growers’ investment in agronomic research back to the farm. The Hub was recently featured at canolaPALOOZA across the Prairies.