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2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020

2026

11/04/2026 - Canola Watch: How to fill in ruts?
10/07/2026 - Canola Watch: Fall weeds, updated 4R guidelines, storage risks
09/23/2026 - Canola Watch: Sclerotia in the sample, good drying days, combine settings quiz
09/09/2026 - Canola Watch: Big weeds, uneven crop, disease
09/02/2026 - Canola Watch: Swathing scenarios, pre-harvest sprays
08/26/2026 - Canola Watch: Pre-harvest sprays and uneven, weedy fields
08/19/2026 - Canola Watch: Bertha beneficials, heavy sclerotinia
08/12/2026 - Canola Watch: Pre-harvest disease scouting can start now
08/06/2026 - Canola Watch: Take a look for insects
07/29/2026 - Canola Watch: Insect weather, sclerotinia in sprayed fields, PHI
07/22/2026 - Canola Watch: Bertha armyworms are hatching, cabbage seedpod weevil adults are dying
07/15/2026 - Canola Watch: Sclerotinia stem rot risk stays high with humidity
07/08/2026 - Canola Watch: Hot topics these week are stem rot, weevils and hail
07/02/2026 - Canola Watch: Lots of rain, lots of weevils
06/24/2026 - Canola Watch: Water, weeds and weevils
06/17/2026 - Canola Watch: Accurate diagnosis, top-dress timing and an insect thresholds quiz
06/10/2026 - Canola Watch: A challenging five-photo quiz...can you go five for five?
06/03/2026 - Canola Watch: A flea beetles proverb, weather quiz and moisture forecast
05/27/2026 - Canola Watch: Weeds keep growing, but this wind and this heat
05/20/2026 - Canola Watch: Lots of DELAYED departures for Prairies Plant 26
05/13/2026 - Canola Watch: Weed spraying in cooler conditions
05/06/2026 - Canola Watch: Weed seedling ID quiz, seasonal temperature forecast
04/29/2026 - Canola Watch: Kochia needs a pre-seed burnoff (with tank mix)
04/01/2026 - Canola Watch: Pre-seed burnoff, gophers and more
03/04/2026 - Canola Watch: Planning for profits in 2026
02/05/2026 - Canola Watch – February 2026
01/13/2026 - Canola Watch – January 2026

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2025

12/17/2025 - Canola Watch: Our annual exam is posted
11/12/2025 - Canola Watch: Canola Week registration | Western Forum highlights
10/01/2025 - Canola Watch: Fall soil tests | Fall weeds | Storage risks
09/10/2025 - Canola Watch: Weed control | Harvest losses | Storage risk
09/03/2025 - Canola Watch: Hail | Pre-harvest products | Combine settings
08/27/2025 - Canola Watch: Weeds | Disease | Pre-harvest considerations
08/20/2025 - Canola Watch: Impacts of rain | Clubroot | Insects
08/13/2025 - Canola Watch: BAW | Weeds | Disease Scouting
08/06/2025 - Canola Watch: BAW | Grasshoppers | Crop Staging
07/30/2025 - Canola Watch: Kochia | BAW | Variety Planning
07/23/2025 - Canola Watch: BAW | Sclerotinia | PHI
07/16/2025 - Canola Watch: Sclerotinia | CSPW & BAW | Missing pods
07/09/2025 - Canola Watch: Sclerotinia | CSPW | Drought
07/03/2025 - Canola Watch: CSPW | Sclerotinia | Spray timing
06/25/2025 - Canola Watch: Hail/Frost | Sclerotinia | CSPW
06/18/2025 - Canola Watch: Nutrient top up? | Second herbicide pass | Sclerotinia
06/11/2025 - Canola Watch: Spraying in wind | Insects | Thin stand
06/04/2025 - Canola Watch: Plant counts | Flea beetles | Weed control
05/28/2025 - Canola Watch: Flea beetles | Low plant counts | Early weed management
05/21/2025 - Canola Watch: Insects | Suspicious weed patches | Weather apps
05/14/2025 - Canola Watch: Weeds & wild weather top of mind this week
05/07/2025 - Canola Watch: Early season prep pays
04/02/2025 - Canola Watch: Spring prep checklist
03/12/2025 - Canola Watch: CanoLAB invite | Fertilizer rates | Crop insurance tools
02/05/2025 - Canola Watch: Profitability | New stress line | Bin check
01/15/2025 - Canola Watch: Agronomy to improve profits | Agronomy priorities 2025

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2024

12/11/2024 - Canola Watch: Our annual exam | Plan now for yield robbers 2025
11/13/2024 - Canola Watch: Yes, you can still soil sample | Check canola bins | Blackleg resistance
10/02/2024 - Canola Watch: Fall weeds | Fall fertilizer | Verticillium stripe
09/18/2024 - Canola Watch: Check combine settings | Seed selection | Soil fertility
09/11/2024 - Canola Watch: Manage shelling | Binning hot | Disease priorities
09/04/2024 - Canola Watch: Combine settings | Manage hot canola | Weeds at harvest
08/28/2024 - Canola Watch: Blackleg | Pre-harvest interval | Swath timing matters
08/21/2024 - Canola Watch: Blackleg | Swath timing | Pests this week
08/14/2024 - Canola Watch: Disease ID | Late-season pests | Don't swath too early
08/07/2024 - Canola Watch: Disease scouting | Harvest prep | Patience pays
07/31/2024 - Canola Watch: Pest updates | Disease scouting | Satellite imagery
07/24/2024 - Canola Watch: Heat stress | Canola pods growing? | Pale flowers
07/17/2024 - Canola Watch: Sclerotinia | Missing pods | Gophers & insects
07/10/2024 - Canola Watch: Is it too hot for fungicide?
07/03/2024 - Canola Watch: Sclerotinia stem rot | Lygus bugs | Late N top up
06/26/2024 - Canola Watch: Hail | Sclerotinia | CSPW
06/19/2024 - Canola Watch: Frost | High plant counts | Weed control in tough conditions
06/12/2024 - Canola Watch: Late seeding | Top pests | In-crop fertility
05/29/2024 - Canola Watch: Grasshoppers | Seeding under time pressure | Weed management
05/23/2024 - Canola Watch: optimize good moisture | manage post frost | attack the weeds
05/08/2024 - Canola Watch: Adjust N rate? | Early weed management | Insects arriving
05/01/2024 - Canola Watch: Seeding timing | Early weed control | Cost of harrowing
04/04/2024 - Canola Watch: CanoLAB Top 5 | Crop establishment quiz | Early burnoff
03/13/2024 - Canola Watch: Moisture situation | Drought-proofing canola | Planning quiz
02/28/2024 - Canola Watch: Special Canola Research Hub edition
01/17/2024 - Canola Watch: On-farm trials | More yield | Canola Watch exam

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2023

10/04/2023 - Canola Watch: Our agronomy questions of the month
09/20/2023 - Canola Watch: How do I reduce combine loss when stems are so green?
09/13/2023 - Canola Watch: Safe storage | Seed selection | Verticillium stripe ID | Harvest losses
09/06/2023 - Canola Watch: Safety first | Top storage risks | Reflowering canola | Fall weed management
08/30/2023 - Canola Watch: C4RA | Grey/black canola? | Kochia | Disease scouting | Assessing uneven maturity
08/23/2023 - Canola Watch: Flea beetles | Harvest loss | Pre-harvest decisions | Disease scouting | C4RA
08/16/2023 - Canola Watch: Swath timing | Pre-harvest intervals | Disease scouting | Uneven maturity
08/10/2023 - Canola Watch: pre-harvest products | swath timing | what's wrong with my plants? | uneven maturity
08/02/2023 - Canola Watch: premature yellowing | diamondback moth | aster yellows
07/26/2023 - Canola Watch: lygus | cost of early swathing | assess maturity in uneven fields
07/19/2023 - Canola Watch: aster yellows risk? | sclerotinia fungicide at 50% flower | insect update | NDVI imagery
07/12/2023 - Canola Watch: Thresholds for multi-species insect spraying | Sclerotinia | Combine prep now
07/06/2023 - Canola Watch: Sclerotinia fungicide ROI | Grasshoppers | Flower blast
06/28/2023 - Canola Watch: Sclerotinia spray decision | Insect thresholds | Abnormal flowering
06/21/2023 - Canola Watch: Cabbage seedpod weevil | Sclerotinia spray pre-planning | What's wrong with my canola?
06/14/2023 - Canola Watch: One pass or two? | Scouting priorities | Hail
06/07/2023 - Canola Watch: plant counts | weed and insect update | more N?
05/31/2023 - Canola Watch: get tank mixing right | stay ahead of weeds | manage a stagey crop
05/25/2023 - Canola Watch: herbicide pitfalls | blackleg fungicide now? | lambda-cyhalothrin update
05/17/2023 - Canola Watch: insects this week | support emergence | seed or spray?
05/10/2023 - Canola Watch: manage weeds | poor emergence | cost of harrowing
05/03/2023 - Canola Watch: flea beetles | seed-placed fertilizer | herbicide carryover
04/05/2023 - Canola Watch: Special pre-season Canola Research Hub edition

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2022

10/05/2022 - Canola Watch: Yield robbers survey | Weed control after frost
08/31/2022 - Canola Watch: Timing end of season management | What to plant next year | Prep for storage
08/24/2022 - Canola Watch: Is it time to swath? | Disease and pest scouting | Combine prep now
08/17/2022 - Canola Watch: What to do after hail | Diamondback moths | Patience pays at swathing
08/11/2022 - Canola 4R Advantage: New incentives for nitrogen best management practices
08/10/2022 - Canola Watch: Patience maximizes yield at swathing | Late season insect update | Disease scout now | Spray to swath timing matters
08/04/2022 - Late season disease scouting | What's chewing into your canola | NDVI | Managing GR kochia
07/27/2022 - Diamondback moths | Lygus bugs | Sclerotinia fungicide ROI on a second pass / on reflowering canola
07/13/2022 - Missing flowers | Sclerotinia risk high | Insect management | Do add-ins add up?
07/06/2022 - Canola Watch: sclerotinia | grasshoppers | lygus bugs
06/22/2022 - Canola Watch: Sclerotinia & blackleg | 1-pass herbicide | Unseeded acres
06/15/2022 - Flea beetles | Top dress | COUNT and SCOUT
06/08/2022 - Canola Watch: weeds | flea beetles | missing plants
06/01/2022 - Canola Watch: weeds, plant density, a difficult start for many
05/04/2022 - Canola Watch: well prepped drills | does seed size matter?
04/06/2022 - Canola Watch: Early seeding | Soil testing | Seeder prep
02/09/2022 - Canola Watch: Cultivar comparison data | Microbes quiz | Top 10
01/17/2022 - Agronomy priorities | Planning for 2022 | Canola Watch exam

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2021

12/15/2021 - Canola Watch – Annual CCA/CCSC exam and Community Connections
11/04/2021 - Yield Robbers quiz | Seed planning | Canola Week registration
09/15/2021 - Canola Watch: Green plants | Storage risks | Setting the combine
09/01/2021 - Canola Watch: Combine optimization | Disease scouting | Post-harvest stem counts
08/25/2021 - Canola Watch: Harvest management | Precocious germination | Winter canola
08/11/2021 - Canola Watch: Harvest prep | PHIs | Lygus bugs | Blackleg
08/05/2021 - Canola Watch: Late-season insects | More on swathing or straight-cutting | Late-season scouting
07/29/2021 - Watch PHIs when applying pre-harvest glyphosate
07/14/2021 - Canola Watch: Lygus bugs | Grasshoppers | Hail
07/07/2021 - Canola Watch: Spraying for sclerotinia | Heat stress | Late-window herbicide
06/30/2021 - Canola Watch: Sclerotinia spray decisions | Cabbage seedpod weevil | Lygus bugs
06/23/2021 - Canola Watch: Cabbage seedpod weevils | Second herbicide passes | Top dressing
06/16/2021 - Canola Watch: Counting canola | Herbicide timing | Cleaning sprayers | Flea beetle tips
06/09/2021 - Canola Watch: Canola Counts | Spray water testing | Flea beetle tips
05/26/2021 - Canola Watch: Post-frost management | Plant establishment scouting
05/19/2021 - Canola Watch: CanolaCounts | Post-frost tips
05/12/2021 - Canola Watch: Canola calculator | Shallow seeding
05/05/2021 - Canola Watch: Slow emergence QUIZ | Soil temperature
04/07/2021 - Canola Watch: While you wait (to seed) QUIZ | Pre-seed burnoff timing
03/10/2021 - Canola Watch: Spring prep is in the air
02/10/2021 - Canola Watch: CCC Convention | Variety performance comparisons
01/14/2021 - Canola Watch: Research Hub update | 4R panel Q&A | Rotations

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2020

11/25/2020 - Canola Watch: 2020 yield robbers on agenda for Canola Week
11/04/2020 - Canola Watch: Cycle bins | Late fall soil tests | Canola Week
10/07/2020 - Canola Watch: Soil sampling quiz | Fall jobs | Seed decisions
09/10/2020 - Canola Watch: Storage risk quiz | Harvest loss measurement
09/02/2020 - Canola Watch: Residue spread | Verticillium stripe | Harvest quiz
08/12/2020 - Canola Watch: Scouting from the road quiz | Disease ID | Lodging
07/29/2020 - Canola Watch: Clubroot or not clubroot? | Bertha armyworm update and podcast
07/22/2020 - Canola Watch: Pod eaters | Beneficials quiz | Why scout now for clubroot?
07/15/2020 - Canola Watch: Green worms quiz | Late-window fungicide | S deficiency
07/08/2020 - Canola Watch: Insect eggs quiz | Top 10 sclerotinia questions
07/02/2020 - Canola Watch: Sclerotinia stem rot theme
06/24/2020 - Canola Watch: Colours of canola quiz | Top-dress tips for N and S
06/17/2020 - Canola Watch: Delayed weed control | Top-dress podcast | Timing quiz
06/10/2020 - Canola Watch: How to do plant counts? | Matching quiz
06/03/2020 - Canola Watch: How to assess leaf area loss | "To spray or not to spray" quiz
05/27/2020 - Canola Watch: Where did the plants go? | Flea beetle quiz
05/21/2020 - Canola Watch: Weed matching game | Flea beetle podcast | Seeding depth video
05/13/2020 - Canola Watch: Top 10 seeding details | Video quiz
05/06/2020 - Canola Watch: Fertilizer options | Weed ID quiz | Sprayer prep
04/22/2020 - Canola Watch: Aim for 75% emergence | 60-sec agronomy videos
04/09/2020 - Canola Watch: Prep the seeding tool for uniform depth
03/12/2020 - Canola Watch: Tips for drying canola, unharvested acres, saline patches
02/05/2020 - Canola Watch: Long-term storage | Top 10 planning questions
01/15/2020 - Canola Watch: Farm show strategy | Seed | Bins

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