Integrated Pest Management
This study based in the Peace River region of Alberta showed that later seeding, higher plant counts and larger seeds reduce flea beetle risk to canola yield. “Evaluating the effect of canola seeding rate and seed size seeded into wheat stubble on flea beetle damage and population,” María Angélica Ouellette, North Peace Applied Research Association...
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Researchers laid the ground work for a rating system based on quantitative resistance to blackleg, specified the critical infection window for blackleg, and investigated connections between flea beetles and blackleg and verticillium stripe and blackleg.
Evaluation of a commercial nitrogen-fixing bacteria product showed that the bacteria did colonize many of the root and shoot tissues, but most did not show strong evidence of nitrogen fixation. In many cases, the percentage of nitrogen in the plants that were colonized was lower than the control (not inoculated) plants. “Advanced N management for...
Read More Primary targets for emissions reductions in Western Canada should be the controls on emissions occurring at spring thaw and enhanced synchronization of nitrogen supply with crop nitrogen demand. “Balancing agronomic and environmental outcomes using enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilizers,” Richard Farrell and Kate Congreves, University of Saskatchewan. SaskCanola, Saskatchewan Agriculture Development Fund Read the full report...
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Replace damaged or kinked air drill hoses immediately, and replace with the same length and diameter as the original. This is key to consistent air flow. “Understanding grain pneumatic conveying in seeding equipment,” Hubert Landry, Ian Paulson, and Samuel Ferré, Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute SaskCanola, Government of Manitoba under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership Prairie Agricultural...
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