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Canola Digest Science Edition 2014

This year’s edition looks at best management practices for canola production and the science behind them. It also provides short summaries of the 16 current agronomy projects funded through Growing Forward 2 and 68 ongoing agronomy projects funded by provincial canola grower organizations. It will be in mailboxes later this month.
 
See CCC agronomists at Agri-Trade
Alberta Canola Producers Commission is at Agri-Trade in Red Deer this week. Find the ACPC booth in the Centrium, and meet ACPC staff and directors plus CCC agronomists. Greg Sekulic and Keith Gabert will be around the booth today and Thursday. Dan Orchard and Justine Cornelsen will be there Friday and Saturday.
ACPC will also have 12 canola grower meetings across the province after Agri-Trade. All meetings feature a CCC agronomist.
 
Source:  Alberta Canola Producers Commission

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Early last season in Western Australia’s Great Southern region, Wellstead Farming faced a dilemma in their oat crop after growing herbicide-tolerant canola the year before. Compounded by no opportunity for knockdown herbicide applications prior to a late April planting, volunteer canola in the furrows started to smother the oat plants. Potential crop impact from early herbicide application in oats can be a concern for many growers, and volunteer herbicide-tolerant canola can be hard to control, so we visited Cropping Manager Duncan Burt to find out the story and the end result.