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Seed treated with Vibrance Total, a combination of five different fungicide groups being brought to market for the 2024 season.
Features, Pulses

The year in pulse crop inputs

A quick look at new actives, new combinations and expanded labels

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Following up on last issue’s roundup of product launches and label expansions in the cereal crop input market, here we’ve put together a quick list of new and/or improved pulse crop inputs that were announced in our earshot during the past year, including several due out for the coming growing season. Again, if we’ve inadvertently […] Read more
Rebate roundup 2024
Crops, Features

Rebate roundup 2024

Cash-back rebates and rewards programs provide growers with much-needed certainty

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Canada’s crop input market faces multiple challenges and growers will look to get the most bang for their buck when purchasing fertilizer, seed and pesticides for 2024. Grainews aims to make that process a little easier with its annual rebate roundup feature that examines some of the cash-back rebates and other reward programs available to […] Read more
A sprayer carrying OnDeck herbicide approaches a patch of kochia.
Cereals Guide 2023

The year in cereal crop inputs

Several products are due on the market for 2024

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Here we’ve put together a quick list of cereal crop inputs that were announced in our earshot during 2023, including several due out for the 2024 growing season. We’ve listed them here in no particular order and if we’ve inadvertently missed someone or something, let us know at [email protected]. Straxan fungicide Corteva bills its cereal […] Read more
A look at one of the plot locations used during the field testing of the University of Manitoba’s fusarium head blight risk assessment tool.
Cereals, Crops, Features

FHB risk assessment tool created for Western Canada

With real-time data, the new tool shows the risk of FHB in small grain cereal crops on a specified date

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A new online tool developed by a team of scientists and researchers in Manitoba could soon make fusarium head blight (FHB) risk management in cereal crops easier for Prairie farmers. For the past five years, staff in the department of soil science at the University of Manitoba (U of M) have been working on a […] Read more
Crown rust produces tiny, orange pustules on oat leaves. Each pustule contains thousands of spores that can travel long distances when released.
Crops, Features

How to control crown rust in oats

In severe cases, it can slash yields by up to 40 per cent. Here are four strategies to help keep that from happening

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Something Prairie oat producers need to keep a sharp eye out for this summer is crown rust. James Menzies, a plant pathologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Morden, Man., says you’ll find crown rust wherever oats are grown, except in very arid climates. It’s more damaging than any other oat disease, causing yield […] Read more
Rebate roundup 2023
Features, News

Rebate roundup 2023

Make your crop input dollars go further this year with cash-back rebates and reward programs

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With the high price of fertilizer and other crop inputs these days, it’s more important than ever to be mindful of cash-back rebates and other grower reward programs as you prepare for the 2023 growing season. With this in mind, here’s our annual roundup (in alphabetical order) of rebates available to farmers in Western Canada […] Read more
Features, News

New herbicides and fungicides for 2023

Products to control key broadleaf and grassy weeds plus a new fungicide seed treatment designation

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Brand new herbicides from Gowan, Nufarm and more, plus a new fungicide seed treatment designation to control early season aphanomyces root rot in peas and lentils are heading your way in 2023. Please note, only brand new products released this year are included. Click here for a review of last year’s new offerings. BASF Voraxor […] Read more
Registered for use on wheat, barley, oats, rye and triticale crops, Sphaerex is a Group 3 fungicide offering broad spectrum protection against a wide range of late-season cereal diseases.
Crops, Features

New fungicides for 2022

Tools to manage resistance development, ergot suppression and more

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Protecting their crops is always top of mind for farmers. And crop protection companies are constantly developing new products and formulations to address disease challenges and other threats that arise every year. The following are some new fungicides producers in Western Canada can look for in 2022. BASF Sphaerex Registered for use on wheat, barley, […] Read more
In 2019, high levels of insensitivity of the anthracnose pathogen to Group 11 fungicides was confirmed in Saskatchewan lentil fields. Testing to confirm this insensitivity revealed a mutation (G143A) that enables the pathogen to have cross-resistance to all Group 11 fungicides.
Crops, Features, Pulses

Another tool to control anthracnose

New label registrations will help combat fungicide insensitivity

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Thanks to an expanded label registration, western Canadian lentil growers will have a new tool from Bayer Crop Science for effective disease control in the 2022 crop year. As of mid-2021, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) expanded the label of a well-established fungicide — Proline Gold — to include anthracnose control in lentils. At […] Read more
Proline Gold is a new canola fungicide that offers protection against sclerotinia. Its liquid formulation provides systemic and contact protection with two modes of action. The above photo shows a sclerotinia stem lesion.
Crops, Features

New fungicides and insecticides heading your way in 2021

New products to control insects like flea beetles and diseases, such as blackleg and sclerotinia, in canola, and more

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One season is never the same as the next, so farmers face different disease and insect issues every year. This is one of the reasons there are new solutions being developed and coming to market every year — to help farmers protect their crops throughout the growing season from new and old disease and insect […] Read more

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