February 23, 2012

FarmTech 2012 – Looking Ahead to Potential Pest Problems In Alberta

Jennifer Otani FarmTech

Assessing risk is a crucial part of any producer’s pest control strategy. If you don’t know what to look for or how to look for it, you are setting yourself up for some potentially costly problems. That risk assessment starts with a good knowledge of the previous year including hotspots for activity, and overall movement [...]

Canola School: Crop Conditions Across the Prairies – Jim Bessel, Canola Council of Canada

The start of the 2011 growing season was challenging to say the least. Wet weather and unseasonably cool conditions in the majority of the west had producers stressed out and wondering if they would get a crop in at all. That was the case in fact in large areas of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Fast forward [...]

Canola School- Potential for Major Flea Beetle Damage in 2011- Dr Julie Soroka

When the conditions are right, flea beetles move quickly and devastate quickly. The bugs are the most chronically damaging insect pest of canola in Western Canada. They inflict the most damage on canola at the seedling stage, inhibiting proper plant growth and delaying maturity. They will feed on more mature plants, but canola at later [...]

Canola School: Assessing Flea Beetle Damage

In this episode of the Canola School, Troy Prosofsky discusses the impact that the flea beetle is having on the Western Canadian canola crop.  Troy also talks about the evaluation of flea beetle damage and when or when not to spray to control the pest. Flea Beetles can be terrible pests and if the damage [...]

Canola School: Understanding the Flea Beetle – Hector Carcamo

With the advent of the introduction of seed treatments like Helix Extra, we do not hear as much about flea beetles anymore.  The reality is that they are still around and could have an impact on your yield.  Forecasts for this pest are difficult and we require the pest to eat the plants in order [...]

The Two F's: Frost and Flea Beetles

By Garth Donald, CCA,Western Canadian Manager of Agronomy, DynagraI can honestly say that it has been a while since I have been on my hands and knees trying to see if there is any life left in a canola plant but this last week it has occurred more than I would like it to. When [...]