Canola Watch

Sanitation of field equipment and scouting gear is an important step to improve clubroot prevention and management. But people are less likely to do the job unless they have a written plan. Mike Harding, plant pathology research scientist with Alberta Agriculture and Food, Barb Ziesman, provincial plant disease specialist with Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, and Dan Orchard, agronomy special...

Canola Watch re-posts this April 28 audio presentation with two timely themes – trade with China and COVID-19. Presenters are Jim Everson, president of the Canola Council of Canada, and Rick White, president and CEO of the Canadian Canola Growers Association. Brian Innes, CCC vice president, corporate affairs, is the moderator. Please note that everyone was working from remote locations, so audio...

Host Jay Whetter talks with CCC agronomy specialist Ian Epp and Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture provincial weed control specialist Clark Brenzil about the benefits of early weed control. They compare pre-seed burnoff and early post emergence applications, and make a good case for spraying first and then seeding. They also discuss tips on timing, temperature, rates and tank mixes to improve re...

What is the best on-farm system to dry grain? Lorne Grieger, research project manager with Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI), and Angela Brackenreed, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, talk with host Jay Whetter about an ongoing study that will help farmers answer that question. The study is an initiative of Team Alberta, a collaboration of four Alberta commodity...

What to do about high-moisture canola as spring temperatures start to warm up? Host Jay Whetter talks with Lorne Grieger, research project manager with Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI), and Angela Brackenreed, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, to answer that question.

Farmers can greatly improve the survival rate of canola seed by achieving uniform seed depth in the half inch to one inch range. For this podcast, host Jay Whetter talks with Shawn Senko of the CCC, Rob MacDonald of BASF and Darcy Missler of Bourgault about practical tips to prep the seeding tool for seed survival supremacy.

A lot of farmers who normally apply nitrogen fertilizer in the fall didn't get the opportunity with the late harvest and unfavourable weather last fall. In this podcast, host Jay Whetter talks with CCC agronomy specialist Warren Ward and Manitoba Agriculture crop fertility specialist John Heard about six options for nitrogen application in the spring.

Host Jay Whetter gets an update on Canadian canola trade with China from Jim Everson, president of the Canola Council of Canada, and Rick White, CEO of the Canadian Canola Growers Association. The first 18 minutes and 30 seconds are about China specifically. For the remaining minutes, Jay, Jim and Rick talk about support programs to compensate farmers for lost markets, and about market development...

Canola Watch teams up with Real Agriculture to offer podcasts recorded live at canolaPALOOZA 2019 at Lacombe, Alberta. In this podcast, the fifth of five in the series, hosts Jay Whetter and Shaun Haney interview Murray Hartman, oilseed specialist for Alberta Agriculture, Rob Gulden, researcher at University of Manitoba, and Darren Feitsma, canola grower from Ponoka, Alberta. The conversation cove...

Canola Watch teams up with Real Agriculture to offer podcasts recorded live at canolaPALOOZA 2019 at Lacombe, Alberta. In this podcast, the fourth of five in the series, hosts Jay Whetter and Shaun Haney interview Breanne Tidemann with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Bob Blackshaw, recently retired from AAFC and Ian Epp with the Canola Council of Canada. The conversation covers major topi...

Canola Watch teams up with Real Agriculture to offer podcasts recorded live at canolaPALOOZA 2019 at Lacombe, Alberta. In this podcast, the third of five in the series, hosts Jay Whetter and Shaun Haney interview Dale Fedoruk with Elite Agronomy, Norm Flore with Nutrien, Patrick Mooleki with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Warren Ward with the Canola Council of Canada. The conversation is an...

Canola Watch teams up with Real Agriculture to offer podcasts recorded live at canolaPALOOZA 2019 at Lacombe, Alberta. In this podcast, the second of five in the series, hosts Jay Whetter and Shaun Haney interview Hector Carcamo with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, James Tansey with Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture and Keith Gabert with the Canola Council of Canada. The conversation is about...

Canola Watch teams up with Real Agriculture to offer podcasts recorded live at canolaPALOOZA 2019 at Lacombe, Alberta. In this podcast, the first of five in the series, hosts Jay Whetter and Shaun Haney interview Luis Del Rio with North Dakota State University and Kelly Turkington with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to talk about sclerotinia stem rot risk factors and management.

Dan Orchard, the Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialist and captain of the clubroot brain trust, goes over the canolawatch.org 'Clubroot True/False' quiz with host Jay Whetter. This is your chance to learn a tonne about clubroot management.

Combine losses of one to two percent (one bu./ac. or less) are achievable, but are your canola harvest losses in that range? In this podcast, combine-loss researcher Joel McDonald and Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialist Angela Brackenreed talk with host Jay Whetter about how to measure loss and, as an important second step, how to set the combine to reduce those losses.

Alberta farmers Christi Friesen and Kyle Tarkowski share their take-aways from a presentation by futurist Bob Treadway. Treadway (trendtalk.com)spoke recently at Alberta Canola's #CanolaLeaders event in Edmonton. Friesen and Tarkowski were there. So was podcast host Jay Whetter.

Sherrilyn Phelps, agronomy manager with Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, talks with host Jay Whetter about the benefits of pulses in the rotation, and specific characteristics that may influence how a canola grower decides which pulse crop is best for their farm.

University of Calgary scientist Paul Galpern and Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialist Gregory Sekulic talk with host Jay Whetter about the economic value of natural non-farmed spaces within 'messy' fields. If you have these spaces on the farm, keep them knowing the unexpected value they provide for crop yield and reduced pest management costs.

Canola Watch podcast host Jay Whetter speaks with University of Manitoba professor and soil scientist David Lobb about soil health indicators and how to improve soil health. Lobb explains how some farmers are moving soil from low areas back up to the hill tops to improve yield and profitability.

Host Jay Whetter and guests Nick Larkan, Stephen Strelkov and Sheau-Fang Hwang talk about blackleg and clubroot, the value of genetic resistance and crop rotation, and the Hub of research summaries at canolaresearch.ca.

Host Jay Whetter talks with John Guelly, Barbara Chabih and Nathan Gregg about the Canola Research Hub at canolaresearch.ca. Nathan Gregg talks about a recent project on straight-combining canola.

Discovery Seed Labs is the first to offer a commercial test of diseased canola stems to identify (1) whether the disease is blackleg and, if it is blackleg, (2) the specific race. Jason Danielson and Sandy Junek of Discovery Labs and Justine Cornelsen with the CCC talk about the test with host Jay Whetter.

Host Jay Whetter talks with U.K. researcher Simon Kightley about the neonicotinoid ban in Europe and the effect on oilseed rape production and protection practices in the U.K. Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialists Keith Gabert and Gregory Sekulic join in.

Host Jay Whetter chats with Alberta farmer John Guelly about his experiences with clubroot. CCC agronomy specialist Dan Orchard joins in with lots of helpful management tips.

Agrium's Ray Dowbenko and Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialists Warren Ward and Dan Orchard talk about the phosphorus-deficiency message at canoLAB and about the surprising soil they demonstrated.