Eric is a prosperous grower with a 10,000-acre grain farm near Verwood, Sask., which produces durum wheat, canola, chickpeas and lentils. In early June, he’d been out scouting his durum field for herbicide timing when he saw something that suggested he had a disease problem on his hands. It appeared some kind of leaf disease […] Read more
Crop advisor casebook: What’s causing severe leaf lesions in this durum crop?
A Crop Advisor's Solution from the April 20, 2021 issue of Grainews
Crop Advisor’s Casebook: What’s stressing these lentils?
A Crop Advisor's Solution from the August 29, 2017 issue of Grainews
“I have never seen anything like it in 15 years of growing lentils,” Vaughn, a southern Saskatchewan producer, told me after he discovered yellowing, unhealthy-looking lentil plants in his field the week of June 23, 2016. Our office had already received several calls from Assiniboia-area growers with similar concerns. Producers had also dropped off samples […] Read more
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