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Seed to the rescue: What is the response time?

How the canola industry prepares today for when disease resistance traits lose their effectiveness.

Farmer Panel

Do you choose seed with an end-user in mind?

Four canola growers talk about their canola seed decisions, and their farm marketing strategies that consider customer needs and specialty users.

Science

Night spraying outperforms dawn for weed management

On average, herbicides were most effective when applied in the daytime, and night spraying gave better results than dawn application.

Key practice: Midday herbicide applications are most effective for canola; midnight application for grassy weeds. Project title, Lead researcher: “Night spraying — Pesticide efficacy with night time application (2012-14),” Ken Coles, Farming Smarter Grower organization funder: ACPC Any reduction in herbicide efficacy quickly impacts the return on input investment. With the short Prairie growing season,...

Agronomist Abroad

Disease and seed tips from England

At a recent conference and NIAB meeting in England, CCC agronomy specialist Nicole Philp picked up new ideas on the value of fungicides in combination with resistant varieties and the challenge of losing neonicotinoid seed treatment.

Science

Improve nitrogen use efficiency

Improved nitrogen use efficiency could provide a significant economic gain, given that nitrogen is one of canola growers’ single biggest input costs. “Nutrient use efficiency from fertilizer application is generally less than 50 percent in the year it is applied. Improvements in nutrient use efficiency are therefore critical, both to improve the economics of crop...