With over 20 million acres of canola, a warming climate and practices that increase selection pressure, new pests are inevitable. Canola growers, pest specialists and agronomists are on the watch for swede midge, pollen beetle, verticillium stripe and group-9-resistant wild oats.
Canada’s farmers say that unpredictability of the sector is their number one cause of stress. The good news is, there are ways to reduce this uncertainty, even when it seems like everything is outside of one’s control.
Seeding tools with sections that shut off automatically when passing over already-seeded areas will reduce input costs for seed and fertilizer. It proves particularly profitable in fields with odd shapes and obstacles.
