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Help is here for soybean sudden death

Bayer’s new ILeVO soybean seed treatment may bring relief to Ontario farmers

By Leeann Minogue April 19, 2017

While sudden death syndrome in soybeans hasn’t yet been a scourge on the Prairies, it has spread across Ontario and it could be on its way to a soybean field near you. When sudden death syndrome hits Manitoba, farmers might be looking for Bayer’s new ILeVO seed treatment fungicide. This product is a Group 7 […] Read more

This photo shows Goodeve wheat, not sprayed with fungicide. The photo was taken on August 2, 2012.

Columns, Crops

Looking for solutions for fusarium

Fusarium head blight is on the rise, and Les Henry is looking for a solution

By Les Henry March 24, 2017

The title of this piece might suggest that the author is an authority on plant disease, but that is not true. For this I have my farmer hat on. There is nothing like a little skin in the game to force one to read the literature and learn. My rotation had been wheat/peas/wheat/canola for 15 […] Read more

A high clearance sprayer on a field in a prairie landscape

Canola, Crops, Features

Spraying your fungicide in “the zone”

With Bayer’s new “Zone Spray,” farmers can skip the fungicide in some parts of the field

By Lisa Guenther February 15, 2017

If Warren Bills has his way, farmers will have a better way to forecast sclerotinia than the old wet boots and weather test. “We believe there is a better way to manage the risk of that disease and the returns growers get when they spray,” Bills told agronomists and industry at Bayer’s Ag Summit in […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

Leaf spotting: what you need to know

The fight against tan leaf spot, and what you can do about it in your fields

By Dilia Narduzzi February 14, 2017

We’ve been working with leaf spots for the last 26 years,” says Dr. Myriam Fernandez, an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research scientist, and lead author of the a recently released 12-year study of the impacts on climate change, region and agronomic practices on leaf spotting in wheat and durum, conducted between 2001 and 2012. Leaf […] Read more

Crops

Fungicides in canola and soybeans

By Kirsten Ratzlaff January 25, 2017

Many hybrids and varieties are developed to be resistant to potentially damaging insects and diseases, but this isn’t always possible. Fungicides and insecticides are important tools that pick up where genetics end, protecting crops against disease and pests when plants are not resistant. Several diseases can affect canola, with the most widespread being sclerotinia white […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Winter Wheat

Winter wheat seed: treatment pays

A dual fungicide/insecticide seed treatment builds hardier winter wheat stands

By Leeann Minogue November 28, 2016

Despite the benefits of winter wheat — weed competitiveness, high yield potential and a schedule that allows growers to spread out work load and capital costs — it’s still not a staple crop for many western Canadian farmers. Farmers say concerns about planting logistics and poor stand establishment are obstacles to growing winter wheat. To […] Read more

Crops, Features, Lentils

Lentils: the crop year in review

2016 brought a wet season and a damp harvest. Lentil crops didn’t like that

By Lisa Guenther November 17, 2016

Lentil growers had a hard time pulling off a good crop in 2016. A wet growing season and damp harvest plagued many farmers. “Without a doubt there were some good quality lentils produced in 2016, but the percentage of high quality lentils produced would be much lower than what we typically see in Western Canada,” […] Read more

Crops, Features, Pulses

How crop diseases become resistant to fungicides

By Lisa Guenther November 3, 2016

Have you ever wondered how crop diseases develop resistance to fungicides? The first thing to know is that fungicide doesn’t actually cause mutations. Those mutations are random, and can be caused by UV rays, cosmic rays, and cell replication errors, said Dr. Sabine Banniza. Mutations drive evolution, Banniza said. But the last thing farmers want […] Read more

Some plants appeared to be further along than others, but these plants were contained within strips that ran in straight lines down the entire length of the field rather than in random patches.

Cereals, Crops

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Inconsistent wheat development

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the February 24, 2015 issue of Grainews

By Raeanne Denomie October 27, 2016

During the last week of August, I was crop scouting for Gerald, who farms 6,000 acres of wheat, barley, oats and canola just north of Wadena, Sask. I was recording the severity of fusarium head blight in one of Gerald’s wheat fields when I noticed something unusual. It was well into the growing season and […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Features

Reduce your malt barley risk

Plant barley on field pea stubble, limit fungicide and reduce nitrogen application

By Julienne Isaacs October 14, 2016

What are the biggest risks on producers’ radars when it comes to growing malting barley? Some might say yield losses, some might say disease, and some might say reduced kernel quality or high protein levels — or a combination of all of these problems and more. New research customizes malting barley systems based on producers’ […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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