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Use those fusarium maps

Know your risk: fusarium maps offer another metric for spraying decisions

By Julienne Isaacs May 2, 2017

What if farmers could predict Mother Nature’s moods in the growing season? The idea is becoming less and less far-fetched with advances that help producers put a number on disease risk. But fusarium head blight (FHB) risk assessment maps are only one factor among many influencing spraying decisions. FHB risk assessment maps have been available […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Features

Farmers a hit on international crop missions

Buyers of Canadian grains had some questions that only actual producers could answer

By Angela Lovell April 6, 2017

If you want to know about Canadian agriculture you ask a farmer. That was the simple reality that farmers who accompanied industry experts on the 2016 Canadian Wheat New Crop Missions learned fast. “Meeting a producer, and seeing and hearing how the wheat they are buying is grown, stored and delivered are essential parts of […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

Fusarium in the bin

A third of CWRS samples submitted to the  CGC were downgraded due to fusarium. Now what?

By Patty Milligan December 3, 2014

Since the first major outbreak in Manitoba in 1993, fusarium head blight (FHB) has established itself in Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan and continues to move into western Saskatchewan, Alberta, and northern B.C. Farmers in some parts of the Prairies are now accustomed to dealing with the fungal disease and its dominant strain, F. graminearum, and […] Read more

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