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
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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