3-15 IAN Canola Cultivar
I don’t know if you’ve seen the ads for Cableone but they have a woman who is a poor imitation of Flo, the "Progressive Insurance Lady, who keeps on saying “It just makes sense.” That’s how I feel about raising canola.
Recent articles in the paper have touted the notion of raising canola so I called Jack Brown, professor in the University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and asked him to explain: “There’s a number of facets in the past if you look at to history and look at why people have not grown canola. Fact number 1 we did not have suitable high yielding adapted cultivars. That has changed dramatically as a result of our program. Winter canola yields are much more stable than before, we have better systems and system management than before, we have a new concept for planting earlier In the fall and that use giving better plants and a better chance at repeatability because the number 1 reason that crops of canola fail is because they do not get established in the fall if they are winter canola. If they don’t get established because of low moisture you never get a crop. But if you plant them earlier in the fall or end of summer there is more than enough moisture and if you get the timing right then you have a nice crop which survives the winter and is large and everybody’s happy.