Canola Seed Articles & Analysis
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Identify and correct crop nutrient deficiencies in your soil to increase yield and profit Achieving prosperity in Canadian agriculture is a balancing act. While new technologies increasingly grow your potential to overcome limiting factors and boost yields, oftentimes revisiting the basics will further support your efforts to reach an optimum balance in soil nutrients. A great place to start is ...
24 years ago when I first started in this business, almost every farmer planted canola at exactly the same rate. No matter how sandy or loamy, high or low moisture, productive or thin-yielding the land, and no matter how plump or slim the seed, we planted 10 acres to the bag. But, because canola seed is expensive and ...
Precision farming isn’t about spending endless hours crunching numbers and analyzing data. It’s about answering questions that can make you more profitable. This is why, SMS software was created. For over 20 years, SMS has been proving itself as an easy-to-use decision-making tool to help farmers capture the most out of every acre. Stuart Lawrence, a fourth-generation farmer from ...
” Today, these pesticides, cherished by farmers for the past 20 years for their effectiveness in killing crop pests, are under intense and increasing scrutiny around the world. They are used to coat most canola and corn seeds and many soy seeds in North America, as well as treat some fruit and vegetable crops and garden plants. ...
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One of the issues to be addressed is winter canola's tolerance of Al when grown on acid soils. The objectives of this study were to determine the maximum Al concentration and minimum pH for canola production in a temperate region with a known acid soil problem. ...
Experiments were conducted in greenhouse pots (200 kg N ha–1) and in canola (Brassica rapa L.) seeded fields using rates of 100 kg N ha–1 (recommended) and 200 kg N ha–1. ...
The study also investigated effects on flea beetles and soil microbial communities of a canola seed treatment containing a neonicotinoid insecticide and fungicides. Crop yields were comparable between intercrops and monocultures of canola and wheat. Crop quality characteristics and flea beetle feeding damage to canola seedlings ...