Canola Or Ticks Take Your Pick

spotlight,I’m Susan Allen welcome to Washington Ag Today. Canola is that beautiful yellow field of flowers appearing now throughout Eastern Washington. Winter canola in some places is in the fourth week of flowering. Spring canola is up and growing on a significant number of acres and with the warmer weather and good soil moisture growers are optimistic for a great canola harvest!

If you are interested in learning more about growing and marketing canola WSU Extension & Outreach Oilseed Specialist, have several upcoming tours beginning next week , contact the WSU Dept of Crop &Soil Science. May 18: Irrigated winter canola field tour, Odessa,.May 19: Winter and spring canola tour, Pomeroy, May 24: Douglas Co. cropping systems tour, 9:00 a.m. http://css.wsu.edu/biofuels.

 

It’s t that time of year to check your ranch dogs for ticks. This is my second year using a product called Braveto on our BorderCcollie and Griffon, t’s a one-time dog biscuit that provides treatment for 3 months, great for dogs like mine that are in and out of the water troughs and rivers. If you’ve got to pull a tick, a nasty job, I asked a friend who is a vet, Dr. C what’s is the best method.

 

DVM C: Well if you have a pair of forceps or tweezers you want to part the hair around the tick so you can get good access and take the instrument and grasp the tick as close to skin as you possibly can so when you go to remove it you are getting the head and the body completely out of the skin.

Just another one of the joys of owning an active farm or ranch dog. Susan Allen with Washington Ag Today