Fertility Management

New soil health score can measure benefits of farm management

Key result: Researchers developed a Saskatchewan soil health assessment protocol and scoring functions, providing the foundation for tools to transform a farmer’s routine soil test data into a Saskatchewan Soil Health Score. These scores can track soil health status over time, and can measure the effect of farm management on soil health status. Soil health...

Science

Harvest tips for weed seed management

Key Result: If one goal at harvest is to reduce the weed seed bank, producers should focus their efforts on harvesting canola as soon as the crop is mature with the aid of chaff collectors or pulverization techniques. For the majority of producers not using these types of equipment, an alternative strategy might be to...

Canola Research Hub

Using research to prepare for a canola disease threat

Verticillium stripe disease has flown under the radar due to misdiagnosis, limited survey results and a lack of quantification of its impact on Western Canadian canola crops. New research projects underway will enhance our understanding.

Feature

Canola Market Snapshot 2019

The value of Canadian canola exports declined by 9.8 per cent in 2018-19, with volume of trade and market prices as factors.

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Toward genetic gain of eight bushels per acre

The Canola Council of Canada’s Keep It Coming strategic plan targets an average yield of 52 bu./ac. across the Prairies by 2025. This is an 18 bu./ac. increase over the average yield at the time the plan launched. Of that, 10 bu./ac. will come as a result of agronomic improvement through the four categories outlined in this magazine. The other 8 bu./ac. will come from genetics. This article summarizes the seed industry’s perspective on their target and how it could be achieved.