Grazing canola tour set May 17

A tour of a canola field that was grazed last fall and is flourishing this spring will be May 17 at 4 p.m. on the Bryan Jones farm, one mile east of Dusty. The tour will be near the site of the former Dusty schoolhouse.

Thirty-four head of cows, calves and yearlings grazed Jones’ canola for three weeks in October. The canola is now in bloom and four feet tall and will be ready to harvest in July this year for a crop of seed to sell.

He plans to repeat the grazing in another canola field next year.

The project is funded by the Washington Canola Cropping Systems in collaboration with animal nutr...