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Blackleg and verticillium stripe are sometimes even found in the same plant. 
Crops, Oilseeds

Canola foes the same — but different

Blackleg and verticillium stripe can be confusingly similar

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Is it verticillium stripe or is it blackleg? That’s a question canola growers may find themselves asking more in the future, as verticillium stripe (VS) gains a stronger foothold on North American farms, a recent webinar hosted by the Prairie provinces’ canola associations heard. It was first discovered in Manitoba in 2014 and is caused
Adding heat, such as from a portable direct flame heater like this one, can turn “poor drying days into good drying days.”
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Now is the time to start thinking about conditioning canola

Having the right setup and the manpower capacity for turning bins are keys to avoiding spoilage

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Two late and wet harvests in a row have greatly increased canola spoilage — and upped the need to have a conditioning plan in place early on. “It’s really important to consider this topic now when there is time rather than being in the heat of harvest and having to make decisions,” said Lorne Grieger,
Crops, News

Potential clubroot control shows promise in the lab

The next phase is greenhouse testing followed by field trials

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Saskatoon-based MustGrow Biologics Corp. is working on a product derived from mustard seed it says will potentially control clubroot, a yield-robbing canola disease currently without chemical control. It has infected thousands of acres in Alberta and is spreading in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. “In the lab we are seeing 100 per cent control (of clubroot spores),” MustGrow’s chief operating officer Colin
Clubroot and other crop diseases have startlingly similar transmission pathways and preventive measures as public health challenges such as COVID.
Crops

How canola diseases act like COVID-19

There are startling similarities between public health and plant health as coronavirus precautions reveal

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With the COVID-19 pandemic, society is gaining a whole new understanding of how diseases spread and how following proper precautions can make a huge impact on slowing the spread. While the human stakes are lower for crop diseases, the economic stakes can be high — and the similarities between COVID-19 and crop disease management is
Crops, Oilseeds

Broadcast canola: Taking the tool of last resort to task

Fields too wet to drill have led to a resurgence in questions about broadcasting canola

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Manitoba’s canola growers aren’t quite ready to opt for broadcast seeding, although the province’s oilseed experts say the poor spring and lack of field access has put the topic on the table. Why it matters: Few producers had turned a wheel coming into mid-May, leaving some to ponder if they will be forced to broadcast seed their canola this year.
The canola value chain isn’t ready to give up
yet on getting back into China.
Crops, News

Canola council not giving up on China market

More than a year after losing its biggest canola seed market the council is still working to restore normal exports

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The Canola Council of Canada remains committed to regaining full access to the Chinese market for Canada’s canola seed. “Our priority is certainly to restore full trade and have all Canadian exporters included in that trade and we will keep working on this file until full trade is restored,” Jim Everson said during a webinar
News, Oilseeds

Canola council: Widen the scope on clubroot management

The Canola Council of Canada wants producers to layer their clubroot management strategies

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The Canola Council of Canada wants you to take a shotgun to your field — at least when it comes to clubroot. [AUDIO: ‘Are we taking clubroot seriously enough?’ – Justine Cornelsen and Dan Orchard] Council agronomists are urging farmers to avoid building a clubroot plan around a single silver bullet. Instead, agronomists Justine Cornelsen
News, Oilseeds

Canada working to diversify canola seed sales

This crop year exports to several countries have risen

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Canada is working to diversify its canola seed sales, says Brian Innes, the Canola Council of Canada’s vice-president of public affairs. “As an industry we are doing what we can to diversify,” Innes said in an interview from Geneva, Switzerland Oct. 28 where Canada and China had their first face-to-face meeting over the canola dispute.
Signs of blackleg in a canola seedling.
Crops, News, Oilseeds

New tool on the way for canola growers safeguards against blackleg

Saltro is a new seed treatment to control blackleg at the seedling stage expected to be available for the 2021 growing season

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A new fungicide to protect canola seedlings from blackleg, a major yield-robbing disease, could be available as a seed treatment for the 2021 growing season. It’s called Saltro and was developed by Syngenta. “Syngenta anticipates registration in time to make it available for use in the 2021 growing season,” Sarah Osborne, company marketing operations manager,
New shatter-resistant canola varieties may hold the key to parking your swather.
Crops, News

Pod shatter reduction canola sounds swathing’s death knell

Sixty per cent of Manitoba’s canola acres this year have pod shatter reduction technology, even though the innovation has only been available since 2014

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Western Canadian farmers have adopted pod shatter reduction canola faster than expected — and industry officials predict the innovation, which is as much about harvest flexibility as straight cutting, will soon be on almost every acre. “InVigor (canola from BASF), which is on more than half of the acres in Western Canada, this year over

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