Insights and Stories on Germination

Forecast, flea beetles complicate canola timing

May. 14, 2021 at 7:20 pm CDT

Drought conditions, and the odds of more to come, have some Prairie canola growers pondering when to roll the dice on seeding, if they want to do more than feed the flea beetles. Small-seeded crops, such as canola, have garnered particular concern from agronomists and producers worried about germination, given […]

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Dec. 4, 2020 at 4:01 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Prairie dryness concerns to persist

May. 24, 2019 at 7:50 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Outlook improves for Prairies’ winter cereals

Oct. 19, 2017 at 9:12 pm CDT

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Flax Council cautions on seed integrity

May. 12, 2017 at 11:46 am CDT

By Staff

Prairie canola reseeding done ‘in a hurry’

Jun. 10, 2015 at 1:31 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Farmers are reported to have mainly finished reseeding canola fields that were damaged by a frost event in the eastern Prairies in late May. “It happened in a hurry. A lot of producers, retail agronomists and seed companies were working overtime to get it all done. It’s […]

By Terryn Shiells

Dawson: Time to assess crops for frost, water damage

May. 20, 2015 at 5:10 pm CDT

Each day it gets easier to assess how much damage frost and excessive moisture did to Manitoba crops over the Victoria Day long weekend. Farmers can expect their soybeans to emerge this week because of warm and sunny conditions — and that germination will probably suffer in some soybean fields. […]

By Allan Dawson