More diverse crop rotations are better, agronomically speaking, but economically speaking, the story is not always so clear. Cash flow in the immediate term sometimes takes centre stage when growing a high-profit crop such as canola.
But what if growing a more diverse rotation was just as profitable as growing canola in a one-in-two, or one-in-three year rotation? Furthermore, what if we could better quantify the other types of risk costs in terms of weed pressure, insects, or disease?
In this episode of the Canola School, Breanne Tidemann, research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at Lacombe, Alta., explains a research project that examines these two questions.
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