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MCGA members offered free blackleg testing

Follow these steps to find out more about the genetics

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 12, 2018

The Manitoba Canola Growers is offering its members a free blackleg gene test. Better gene classification will help growers match blackleg-resistant canola varieties to races of the fungus found in the field. Members can qualify for one free test each. MCGA is offering the tests, which ordinarily cost $200, under the Pest Surveillance Initiative, which

Manitoba Agriculture pulse specialist Dennis Lange is suggesting farmers check their soybean fields for mature, green-seeded soybeans and if the percentage is high consider delaying harvest and also consulting with buyers.

Local news, Oilseeds

Advice on green-seeded soybeans

Consider delaying harvest and talk to your buyers, says Dennis Lange

By Allan Dawson September 10, 2018

Grade-lowering levels of green seed is showing up in some of the soybeans being harvested in Manitoba. Manitoba Agriculture’s pulse crop specialist Dennis Lange is advising farmers who haven’t harvested to take samples to see if they have the problem and how bad it is. Those with green seeded soybeans should consider delaying harvest a

Understand that straight cutting canola will mean taking a look at how the entire combine operates.

Crops, Equipment, Oilseeds

Different harvest, different combine settings

Those combine settings may not be doing you any favours if you’re aiming for straight cut and they’re still set to swath

By Alexis Stockford September 7, 2018

First-time canola straight cutters might want to take another look at their combine settings. “When we’re comparing picking up a windrow to straight cutting, we, again, want to kind of treat this like a different crop,” Angela Brackenreed of the Canola Council of Canada stressed during a recent Manitoba Agriculture webinar. “The same combine setting

It’s ok to start swathing after a frost if most or all of your canola seed is already mature.

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Frost hits canola. Do I swath?

Consider these scenarios in the event of a frost on your canola

By Canola Watch September 4, 2018

With fall coming on strong and frost risk climbing, many canola growers are wondering what to do with standing canola. The Canola Council of Canada’s CanolaWatch has the following recommendations for before and after a frost. For canola that you’ll be swathing If frost is forecast, should you swath canola now or leave it standing?

Crops, Oilseeds

Straight-cutting canola growers urged to be patient on desiccant spray

Producers may be chomping to get the crop off the field, but experts say an early desiccant application in canola might mean loss of quality

By Alexis Stockford August 9, 2018

Don’t jump the gun on canola desiccation. The growing number of farmers who are straight cutting canola are once again pondering the right time to cut off their growing season, a decision that Canola Council of Canada agronomist Angela Brackenreed says is always difficult, even for experienced producers. Lionel Kaskiw, farm production adviser with Manitoba

Kristen MacMillan, the University of Manitoba’s faculty of agricultural and food sciences’ agronomist in residence, talks to students in the field  about how a soybean plot trial is developing.

Crops, Oilseeds

Putting class theory into soybean field practice

The University of Manitoba has introduced a new hands-on field course designed to introduce research principles to help second-year diploma students apply learning from their first year of study

By Lorraine Stevenson July 31, 2018

Students studying agriculture at University of Manitoba took their studies outside this summer as participants in a first-ever course being offered those in their second year of the agriculture diploma program. The field class is instructed by pulse crops expert and U of M’s faculty of agricultural and food sciences’ agronomist in residence Kristen MacMillan,

Attendees to the MPSG SMART Day take a look at a shallow-seeded soybean, compared to the swollen hypocotyls of one planted too deep and in compacted soil.

Crops, Oilseeds, Other

How deep is too deep when chasing moisture for soybeans?

A University of Manitoba researcher thinks there should be more attention paid to soybean seeding depth

By Alexis Stockford July 27, 2018

Soybean growers may have been tempted to dig deep for seeding this year, but University of Manitoba researcher Kristen MacMillan says the data may not back up that practice. The Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers puts ideal seed depth between three-quarters of an inch and an inch and a half below the soil surface. Dry

Changing moisture conditions at flower had farmers hunting for answers on whether to spray for sclerotinia, or leave the fungicide alone.

Crops, Oilseeds

Sclerotinia a moving target this season

Farmers faced a tougher than normal choice on whether to spray for sclerotinia this year

By Alexis Stockford July 12, 2018

Whether to spray canola for sclerotinia is always a challenging choice, but this year was harder than usual. Dry soil gave little room for the disease to germinate early in the year through much of Manitoba, leaving producers to wonder if a spray pass was worth the expense, says Angela Brackenreed, of the Canola Council

Soybean acres have grown rapidly in Western Canada in recent years, but there still isn’t a domestic crushing option.

Crops, Oilseeds

Prairie soy sector standing still

The budding soybean industry in Western Canada is suffering from lack of local processing

By Alex Binkley June 13, 2018

Western Canada’s soybean sector is experiencing its chicken-or-egg moment. Production has grown quickly over the past several years, but still nobody has stepped forward to build a soybean crush plant in the region, according to Ron Davidson, executive director of Soy Canada, even though the economics are now in support of it. He told the

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Ideal flea beetle weather hits canola fields hard

Flea beetle damage has been enough to tip the scales for some producers considering reseeding their canola

By Alexis Stockford June 11, 2018

Canola growers are reaching for the insecticide or, in some cases, extra seed after a spring that has been friendly for the flea beetles, but less than optimal for the crop. Justine Cornelsen, western Manitoba agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, says she has heard some farmers intending to reseed after their first

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MCGA members offered free blackleg testing

Advice on green-seeded soybeans

Different harvest, different combine settings

Frost hits canola. Do I swath?

Straight-cutting canola growers urged to be patient on desiccant spray

Putting class theory into soybean field practice

How deep is too deep when chasing moisture for soybeans?

Sclerotinia a moving target this season

Prairie soy sector standing still

Ideal flea beetle weather hits canola fields hard

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