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Alternaria in a canola leaf. By understanding the interactions between the host, pathogen and environment, farmers can better develop an effective disease management strategy.
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Five disease management strategies for your crops

Q & A with an expert

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Q: What are some strategies to prevent and control crop diseases?  A: The disease triangle states that three components must be present for a disease to occur: a susceptible host, a pathogen and the right environment. By understanding the interactions between the host, pathogen and environment in disease development, farmers can develop effective disease management […] Read more
Ron and Cindy know if they were to stop farming today, they would not have enough personal assets to maintain their current lifestyle spending of $6,000 per month.
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What to do when capital is short and needs are long

Farm Financial Planner: Tough decisions ahead for this Manitoba couple

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A farming couple from Manitoba we’ll call Ron, 67, and Cindy, 65, have run a successful farming operation for the last 40 years. They want to retire; however, none of their three kids have any interest in farming. The farm is comprised of five quarters of land and some machinery held personally by Ron and […] Read more
This apomictic process, if successful, allows superior combinations of plant traits to be captured and preserved without any cross-pollination.
Cereals, Columns, Crops

Hybrid wheat and apomixis

Practical Research: Are we any closer?

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Eureka! Not really. In the next year or so, Syngenta will release a hybrid wheat variety using complex crossbreeding systems just ahead of a few rival companies working on the same problem. Hybrid wheat varieties combine the traits of two parent selections. Work started on hybrid wheat around 2010, and by 2023 there will be […] Read more
For most farmers, the simplest, easiest and cheapest way to measure soil moisture is using the hand-feel method.
Columns, Crops

How to understand and measure soil water

It’s important to estimate stored soil moisture at planting to adjust crop inputs

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Water is often the most crucial factor in controlling crop yields. The amount of water used by crops can be affected by several factors including the availability of stored soil water, amount of precipitation during the growing season, crop rooting depth and various environmental aspects such as day length, amount of solar radiation, humidity, temperature […] Read more
This photo shows the haze from a coal mine still burning beneath the borough of Centralia, Pa.
Columns

Les Henry: Climate and pandemics

Disease checks population growth — and CO2 emissions

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About a decade ago, the hype about climate change led us to believe we would soon be frying out and it was all due to humans and fossil fuels. My argument has been, over the past million years or so, ice ages and glaciers have come and gone many times and our agriculture area was […] Read more
‘The article was good. It was clean. It was well written. It was relevant to a Canadian ag audience and it included considerations that showed real insight into the ag industry. I could have submitted that, and I am not entirely certain my editor would have noticed that a computer wrote it.’ – Toban Dyck.
Columns

Toban Dyck: This column could’ve been written by AI

Let’s understand technology rather than run from it

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I was on a call with my business partner, Ryan Santschi. A Zoom call. “Hey, I’d love to stay and chat, but I have a column to write this morning,” I said. “Okay. No problem. What are you going to be writing about?” asked Santschi. I gave him the elevator pitch about what I was […] Read more
One gap created by the absence of lambda-cy products could be effective control of lygus bugs.
Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Important safety report released and lambda-cy update

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In the March 7 issue of Grainews, Lee Hart wrote two in-depth features on what 2023 looks like without lambda-cyhalothrin products, which provide cost-effective and efficient means of controlling common crop insect pests. Starting this April, Health Canada and the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) have introduced restrictions on the use of insecticides containing the […] Read more

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