Alberta how are the Low Temps affecting your Canola crop.

[SASKFARMER3]

Just wondering, most in Alberta will have their canola seeded by now, how is the cold over night temps affecting the crop. Here none is up yet so were fine yet. Also Manitoba how is it doing in your neck of the woods.

[HFL]

We seeded mustard. Its very dry here with no rain/snow since last fall so germination is not the best. About half of it is up. I don't know how it can survive when it hits - 2 or -3 for 6 to 8 hours the last few nights.

[vvalk]

I would say most of the canola is in in Alberta, at least south of Calgary anyways. Most of my canola and mustard is out of the ground. We had freezing temp 2 nights ago. Got to -3 to -3.5 but I think only for 2 hrs at most. Not sure how long it takes to see if there is damage but I think everything is ok. The only other frost was about a week ago and in some places by Lethbridge north and south it got as low as -6. Losts of pulses out and some early canola but have not heard yet of any damage.

[sewen]

Lost some canola last night, hard to tell how bad it will be as they were not all up yet, but it's going to be a thinner stand then what it was supposed to be. Amazing how the frost has no effect on the weeds.

Frost warning on again for tonight.

[AG_guy]

Loosing some canola this early may not effect you to much. canola has the great ability to make up for early season loss of plants. you will have less canola sucking up the nutrients so there may be more for whats left. It may look thinner but i would suspect yield won't be as low as you think. " hopefully"