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man checking moisture content in a canola bin
Crops, Oilseeds

Check your canola bins ASAP

The CCC says buyers are reporting a sudden surge in heated canola

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Baby it’s cold outside, but your canola bins could be hot — dangerously hot. That’s why the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) wants farmers to check their bins right away. “Canola delivery points report a spike in heated canola over the past couple of weeks,” the CCC said in its Canola Watch email Nov. 28.
two men standing in an agricultural seed treatment facility
Local news, Oilseeds

BrettYoung unveils new seed-treating facility at Winnipeg headquarters

The 28,000-square-foot facility can process 50 million pounds of seed a year

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BrettYoung opened its new seed-treating and -coating facility at its headquarters just outside of Winnipeg Oct. 28. It’s the single biggest investment the 80-year-old, family-owned company has ever made, BrettYoung chief executive officer Calvin Sonntag said in an interview. “It signals our ongoing commitment to agriculture and to customers and supplier-partners,” he said. “This investment
A lygus bug in canola. Once seeds in the lower pods start to change colour canola crops are less susceptible to lygus bug damage.  photo: John Gavloski, mafrd
Crops, Oilseeds

Assessing canola’s susceptibility to lygus bug damage

The risk declines as seeds in the lower pods start to change colour

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Lygus bugs are still showing up in canola fields, but if seeds on the lower pods are changing colour then spraying with an insecticide is probably uneconomic, says John Gavloski, an entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. “The plant can compensate well unless there’s very, very dry conditions,” he said in an interview
Severe clubroot case in northern North Dakota gets Manitoba’s attention
Crops, News, Oilseeds

Severe clubroot case in northern North Dakota gets Manitoba’s attention

This province has clubroot but there could be undetected 
fields with high spore levels farmers should be looking out for

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A suspected severe case of clubroot just across the border in Cavalier County, North Dakota is a wake-up call for Manitoba farmers. “I’m drawing attention to this because it’s at high levels right there so you can probably expect it’s at high levels close by and there is greater risk in those areas (close to
This filed of canola is at the 50 per cent bloom stage. The optimum time to apply a fungicide to protect canola from sclerotinia is at 20 to 30 per cent bloom, but it can be applied up to 50 per cent bloom. photo lionel kaskiw, mafrd
Crops, Oilseeds

Tools to assess sclerotinia risk in canola

The risk was high last week, but it might not be this week

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The sclerotinia risk was high in most of Manitoba last week, but it may have changed this week and the risk could be different a week from now, says Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) oilseed specialist Anastasia Kubinec. That’s why it pays farmers to assess the risk to their own canola crops before
Crops, News, Oilseeds

Pest surveillance branch update June 19, 2014

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Alberta Insect Pest Monitoring Network – The wet weather will favor disease development. Many fungal and bacterial diseases will thrive with the continuous moisture available. On his weekly insect update on Call of the Land, Scott Meers talks about cutworms, scarab beetle, and bertha armyworm. Diseases to watch for under these conditions at this time of year
Man holding canola samples in jar.
Crops, Oilseeds

Clubroot not so scary anymore, says CCC agronomist

Better scouting and earlier detection are key to avoiding an ugly, Alberta-style epidemic in Manitoba

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Clubroot isn’t as scary as it used to be. At the CanoLAB event a couple years ago, there was only one example of an infected root — and it was securely encased in a kind of translucent hockey puck. But this year, there were trays of clubroot-infected canola seedlings set out on tables that could
Midge larvae in a vial.
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Swede midge threat looms over Manitoba canola crops

A deceptively tiny bug can wreak non-stop havoc in canola

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If you thought clubroot was scary, get ready for Swede midge — a voracious mosquito-like bug that can wreak havoc with your canola yields. First found in North America in 2000, and has appeared in low numbers in Manitoba in 2007 and 2013, said Julie Soroka, a Saskatoon-based entomologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. “The
Woman smiling.
News, Oilseeds

Canola growers invest $130,000 in new lab

The new Pathogen Surveillance Initiative will focus initially on clubroot detection

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Manitoba’s battle against clubroot just kicked up a notch. The Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) is investing $130,000 in the new Pathogen Surveillance Initiative, which will see a new laboratory set up at the University of Manitoba, MCGA president Ed Rempel announced at the association’s annual meeting in Winnipeg Feb. 18. The farmer-led effort funded
News, Oilseeds

FDA’s trans fat ban could boost demand for non-soybean oils

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement Nov. 7 that it plans to phase out the use of trans fat in processed foods could cause demand for soyoil to drop in coming years, opening the door for other edible oil markets. “The announcement was really a surprise,” Dave Lehman, managing director of commodity research

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