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WCC/RRC Maintains Quality Control

All canola seed sold in Western Canada passes through the Western Canada Canola/Rapeseed Recommending Committee. It coordinates trials at dozens of sites across the Prairies each year to check new candidate cultivars to make sure they meet canola standards for oil quality. It has a pathology subcommittee that, for example, introduces protocols for the blackleg...

Farmer Panel

How Do You Choose Your Canola Hybrids?

Canola Digest farmer panelists describe what cultivars they grew in 2022 and how they make their canola seed decisions. Breann and Bryce Moore LeRoy, Saskatchewan Breann and Bryce Moore operate Green Ash Acres and work off-farm jobs. Breann is a retail agronomist at Midway Co-op in LeRoy and Bryce is a professional agronomy consultant with...

Agronomy Insights

Choose the best canola seed traits for each field

Canola Council of Canada (CCC) would like to see more farmers make canola seed decisions based on the best traits for each field. CCC agronomy specialists encourage growers to know the blackleg and clubroot scenario in each field and use that to select an appropriate source of resistance. Farms can also rotate herbicide tolerance (HT)...

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13 tips from Combine College

Manitoba Canola Growers co-hosted Combine Colleges at Dauphin and Portage la Prairie in July. Here are few key messages from a general presentation on how to prevent and measure loss, and brand specific presentations from Case IH, John Deere and New Holland.

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How to make in-bin drying more efficient

An Alberta study, with support from Alberta Canola, measured the efficiency of on-farm drying systems. The comparison of in-bin drying provided tips to improve fuel efficiency and reduce drying time and cost.