The Successors is a RealAgriculture podcast series hosted by Kara Oosterhuis focusing on agriculture from the perspective of the up-and-coming generation. How do you turn your focus from animals to being a canola specialist? What is it like to travel and see agriculture around the world? Why is important to be curious about your job?… Read More
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The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) has recently updated a few agronomy graphics, including the life cycle of blackleg. “We’ve had different life cycles in the past, but we wanted to update it and provide a little bit more information kind of in a one shot,” says Justine Cornelsen, agronomy specialist with CCC. In this… Read More
Welcome to this Agronomic Monday edition to kick off another week. On today’s RealAgRadio you’ll hear from: Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson gives us an Ontario #plant21 update, including what’s happening on his own farm; Andrew Chisholm joins us for a Truflex product spotlight, Wade Barnes, co-founder and CEO of Farmers Edge, will talk about a new… Read More
It’s still early days, but as we wait for soil temperatures to warm up in parts of the Prairies and for canola seeding to roll in full force, it’s good to review the potential for canola diseases. Root rot pathogens pose a certain amount of risk to a canola crop early in the season. Justine Cornelsen,… Read More
It’s Agronomic Monday on RealAgRadio! On today’s show, you’ll hear from: John Gavloski, entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development, for the latest on insect pressure; Shawn Conley of the University of Wisconsin, about unlocking the secrets of soybeans; Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson, talking heat stress and timely rain; and, Justine Cornelsen with the Canola… Read More
We’re starting to see some flowering in canola and with that, scouting for sclerotinia is on the to-do list. Justine Cornelsen, with the Canola Council of Canada, based out of Manitoba, joined Kara Oosterhuis in this latest episode of Canola School. “It comes down to environmental conditions,” says Cornelsen, “Do you have enough moisture? Is… Read More
It’s the start of a new week, and tractor are beginning to roll across the country as we head into the last week of April. And conveniently enough, it’s Agronomic Monday! On today’s episode of RealAg Radio, you’ll hear: Andrew Reid, technical marketing manager with BASF Canada, on early-spring weed control for your pulse crops;… Read More
Most producers that grow canola are well aware of blackleg and the damage the disease can inflict on a canola crop. However, when we think of scouting for blackleg, we often think of clipping canola plants later on in the season when the disease is evident in stems. Believe it or not, blackleg is a… Read More
It’s the first day of the work week, and you know what that means — it’s Agronomic Monday! We’ve got wall-to-wall agronomy content for you today. On today’s show, you’ll hear: Justine Cornelsen of the Canola Council of Canada, on verticillium stripe and why scouting for the disease will be critical; Andrew Reid of BASF,… Read More
It’s been six years since the disease we now call verticillium stripe was discovered in canola in North America. First identified on a research farm in Manitoba in 2014, a Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) survey the next year found the pathogen, which can cause striping symptoms on canola stems, in six provinces — from… Read More
Today on the show you’ll hear: The top ag news, with RealAgriculture’s Jessika Guse; An update on the rather frustrated ag markets, with Jon Driedger, of Leftfield Commodity Research; and Inclement harvest weather, and your canola crop, with Justine Cornelsen, Canola Council of Canada Have feedback on the show? Connect with host Shaun Haney via… Read More
For any grower, the decision when to seed canola is determined not only by moisture conditions and soil temps but also the potential for frost. This year, farmers in parts of western Canada have had to worry about frost later in the year (end of May), compared to the usual mid April and beginning of… Read More
Verticillium stripe, also known as verticillium wilt, is a relatively new-to-Canada canola disease. First identified on a research farm in Manitoba in 2014, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) conducted a nation-wide survey to determine the extensiveness of the pathogen in 2015, and found it to be in multiple locations. In this episode of Canola… Read More