Any type of disease that affects the seedling stage of canola has to be taken seriously. Seedling blight can be devastating to your canola crop before or after germination. Knowing what you're looking for and how to deal with it can put you in a position to assess your risk and take action that can... Read More
Category: Crop Production
How early is too early to plant corn? The simple answer is that there is no simple answer, at least one that doesn't involve a healthy dose of hindsight. Depending on a number of factors outside everyone's control, you can have a banner year planting early or a total bust. It also depends on if... Read More
Life is an amazingly resilient thing. With all the time, effort and money we put into protecting our crops we sometimes forget how well they can adapt and recover from things we wouldn't expect them to. Take the winter wheat crop for example. The fact of the matter is that it should have been extremely... Read More
European corn borer, corn earworm, and western bean cutworm beware. There’s a new kid in town that packs quite a punch. It’s called Voliam Xpress and has been recently registered by Syngenta for use on all types of corn. Voliam Express is a pre-mix of two powerful insecticides with proven effectiveness against European corn borer,... Read More
The issue of herbicide resistance is something producers will have to continue to be vigilant about. Careful consideration needs to go into the "when" "how" and "what" to use of your individual weed control strategy. That strategy in turn needs to be balanced with a good sense of corporate responsibility about producer issues like herbicide... Read More
This years mild winter has brought a number of concerns to producers minds in the area of pests. The general thoughts and feelings being that the mild weather would either help pests to over winter more easily leading to increased numbers or that the conditions would lead to pests being out and about much earlier... Read More
This weeks episode of Saiks AgriTreks continues with Rob's tour of the agriculture industry in Argentina. This time around, Rob gives us a quick look at the Louis Dreyfus loading facility on the Parana River. The soybean processing facility itself is massive and produces biodiesel, oil, raw soybean and soybean meal for export with most... Read More
Spring wheat and barley growers, especially those in the black soil zones, may appreciate a new Axial brand from Syngenta. Axial Xtreme combines the broad-spectrum annual grass control of Axial Herbicide with the broadleaf herbicide fluroxypyr. Axial should deliver a high level of control of common annual grasses such as wild oats, green and yellow... Read More
Like a company reporting earnings to the market, StatsCan released their stocks report. The clear indication from the report is that canola stocks are very low. As we look at the current 2012 seeding season (follow #plant12), this report does not provide increased planting incentive that wasn't already there. The intended 20 million acres of... Read More
Canola acres across the west have grown continuously over the years. The profitability of canola on the farm has not only expanded acres but also caused producers to tighten rotations. With those increased acres and short rotations the threat of disease becomes magnified. Sclerotinia is one of those diseases that, once established, can have devastating... Read More