Breaks of two to three years between canola crops is considered sufficient to reduce crop disease severity.

Good agronomy urged under uncertain canola market

With tariffs and trade wars looming, Canadian canola growers are urged to eke out every bit of efficiency in their 2025 canola production

Reading Time: 6 minutes With tariffs and trade wars looming, Canadian canola growers are urged to eke out every bit of efficiency in their 2025 canola production.

Oxeye daisies, native to Europe, are a problematic Prairie weed that can be controlled with a tiny moth, also native to the European continent, according to researchers from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

Tiny European moth a biocontrol for hardy oxeye daisy weed

Researches with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada have learned that the Dichrorampha aeratana moth is helpful in the fight against the oxeye daisy weed which has taken root in the Prairies

Reading Time: 3 minutes A tiny moth from Europe has been found to be a great biological control agent against oxeye daisy, an invasive plant that is a threat to forage crops and pastures.



Wild vegetation borders a cereal crop.

Weighing the benefit-risk balance on field edges

Researchers hope to weigh both agricultural value and risk from field boundaries like ditches and shelterbelts

Reading Time: 3 minutes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researchers in Saskatchewan hope to weigh both agricultural value and risk from field boundaries like ditches and shelterbelts.





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New website against weeds launched

Glacier FarmMedia – Producers have a new website to bookmark if they’re looking for weed information on the Prairies. The Western Grains Research Foundation has announced the official launch of a weed monitoring hub, prairieweeds.com. The website will be the new digital host for resources, data, weed maps and research under the Prairie Weed Monitoring […] Read more

Farmer adoption of the destructors, which pulverize weed seeds before they exit the combine in chaff, is slowly gaining momentum.

Weed seed destructors rare on Canadian farms

The devices are slowly gaining momentum in this country

Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – About 30 weed seed destructors were used last fall on farms across Canada, says an Agriculture Canada scientist. That isn’t a lot, as the country has some 50,000 grain farms that buy about 2,000 new combines every year. But adoption of the destructors, which pulverize weed seeds before they exit the combine, […] Read more



Ward and Jo-Anne Middleton on their certified organic farm north of Edmonton.

‘Little hammers’ control weeds on organic farm post-harvest

Tillage, grazing and cover crops are options for organic growers

Reading Time: 5 minutes Conventional grain farmers have chemical tools to manage weeds post-harvest, but for certified organic producers like Ward Middleton, options are limited. “We don’t really have a sledgehammer-type problem-solving option to control weeds, so we have to use many little hammers,” said Middleton, quoting weed ecologist Eric Gallandt, who coined the phrase at the 2012 Canadian […] Read more