Glacier FarmMedia – The cool, damp spring the Prairies are experiencing could lead to a bad year for cabbage seedpod weevils, which is bad news for canola growers. “They seem to like it a little bit cooler, rather than very hot, and can suffer with great heat and very dry conditions,” Saskatchewan Agriculture entomologist James […] Read more
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Canola council urges vigilance with flea beetles
Flea beetle damage was relatively low last year compared to the crushing pressure of previous seasons, but producers can’t afford complacency. “There was less foliar insecticide used for flea beetles than the previous years, and maybe less flea beetles to some degree, but there were still a lot of flea beetles out there,” said Manitoba […] Read more
Fight flea beetles at seeding
WINNIPEG — Providing advice on how to successfully grow a crop is much easier than doing it. Keith Gabert, a Canola Council of Canada agronomist in Alberta, is fully aware of that distinction. Related stories: In an ideal world, growers should seed canola about one inch deep into warm, moist soil. Under those conditions, the […] Read more
Hormone imbalance suspected for malformed racemes
Researchers are trying to figure out what caused some canola crops to abort flowers and pods, and develop malformed racemes or stems during the last two years. “It’s not an obvious symptomology that you would spot from the road, or that it’d be easy to pick up,” said Keith Gabert, an agronomy specialist with the […] Read more
Consider moisture before spraying flea beetle
“Canola can take a lot of damage before you actually need to spray. The conditions that make me worried for flea beetles though, are the hot and dry conditions because that makes the flea beetle bites on the plants worse. When it’s hot and dry, the plant can’t compensate for having these holes in it and then the holes lead to increased drying,” said Tyler Wist, an Agriculture Canada research scientist who studies flea beetles.
