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Wheat leaf rust. (James Kolmer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Machinery and Shop

Digital supercluster backs precision fungicide development

Project aims at wheat leaf rust, reducing pesticide load

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A West Coast ag tech company in the crop pest control business is setting its sights on wheat leaf rust, with support from one of Canada’s five research superclusters — but not the cluster you might expect. Out of the five federally-supported superclusters launched in early 2018, Protein Industries Canada has been most closely linked […] Read more
As corn acreage expands on the Prairies, there will be a whole new crop that can host fusarium spores.

Crops, Features

Still no magic bullet for fusarium head blight

There’s still no cure, but at least there’s no sign of fungicide resistance. Yet

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“We have no magic bullet.” When Randy Kucher, associate professor at the Crop Development Centre/Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, said that at the beginning of his presentation, the mood in the roomful of CropSphere attendees deflated just a bit. Fusarium head blight has stolen yield from many durum and spring wheat […] Read more
When is my canola in the right stage for a fungicide?
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

When is my canola in the right stage for a fungicide?

Q & A with Nutrien Ag Solutions

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Q: How do I determine the correct bloom stage in canola to apply a sclerotinia fungicide? A: Proper timing of fungicide for sclerotinia control requires regular scouting. The recommended timing is application at the 30 per cent bloom stage. Application prior to this stage can result in reduced control as petals susceptible to infection have yet to emerge. […] Read more
Should I treat my seed with a fungicide?
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Should I treat my seed with a fungicide?

Q & A with Nutrien Ag Solutions

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Q: Why should I treat my seed with a fungicide? When should my seed treatment include an insecticide? A: Seeds and seedlings are vulnerable to many soil-borne and foliar pests. Insects and pathogens can destroy germinating seeds and young plants, which are relatively tender and lack food reserves to recover from injuries or to survive […] Read more
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Crops

UPL to buy crop chem firm Arysta

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Indian chemical manufacturer UPL has raised the financial backing for an all-cash deal to become what’s expected to be the world’s fifth biggest crop chemical firm. UPL on July 20 announced it will pay $4.2 billion to buy 100 per cent of Arysta LifeScience — the maker of Everest and Inferno herbicides, among other products […] Read more
Bayer’s Zone Spray is currently set up to help target sclerotinia in canola, but there are plans to incorporate other crop and disease combinations in the future.
Canola, Machinery & Shop, Machinery and Shop

Bayer Digital Farming launches Zone Spray

This new cloud-based program helps farmers spray only the right acres

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This summer, canola growers will likely again be faced with the tough decision of whether or not to spray fields with a fungicide to protect the crop from sclerotinia. Spraying unnecessarily can mean wasted inputs, but failing to protect crops when needed could also mean significant yield losses. Even if producers decide to spray fungicide, […] Read more
August 1, 2014, the crop looked great.
Cereals, Columns, Crops

FHB: a disease of even-numbered years

It seems unlikely that FHB strikes every second year, but the data backs it up

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This is an update of a piece about fusarium head blight (FHB) we did about one year ago now. To be honest, much of it is actually “cut and paste” from last year. I’ve never done that before, but it seems appropriate for this situation. We are just adding another year of data. In agronomy […] Read more
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Livestock, Reuters

Honeybees’ attraction to fungicide ‘unsettling’

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London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Honeybees are attracted to a fungicide used in agriculture with “unsettling implications” for global food production, a U.S. scientist said on Tuesday. Tests carried out by a team from the University of Illinois showed bees preferred to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone. […] Read more

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