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Seeding near the Goyder Line, Peterborough, South Australia.

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Australians resilient to herbicide resistance

After the Millennium Drought, Australian farmers handle herbicide resistance with confidence

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To understand how Australian farmers handle herbicide resistance, it’s useful to know about the Millennium Drought. The drought stretched over a decade and tested farmers’ mettle. But they emerged from those dry years with heightened confidence, says Brad Collis, editor of Ground Cover. “The industry’s come through it in very resilient frame.” Collis credits agriculture’s […] Read more
VIDEO: “Old soil-applied” solutions to fight herbicide resistance
Crops

VIDEO: “Old soil-applied” solutions to fight herbicide resistance

Crop Diagnostic School: Know your target weed issues... and your problem weeds of the past

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To help keep herbicide-resistant weeds at bay, some older soil-applied products are rejoining the fight. At the 2015 Crop Diagnostic School, Jeanette Gaultier, pesticide use specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, talks about which herbicide-resistant weeds producers should watch for and what they need to consider before choosing a herbicide for their situation.
New growth Kochia emerging from the soil
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Fighting herbicide resistant weeds with change

Multiple modes of action and stacked seed traits help farmers manage resistance

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When it comes to herbicide resistance, chemical companies are focusing on multiple modes of action. More varieties with stacked herbicide-tolerant traits are also on the horizon. But as western Canadian farmers sail towards that new future, they should keep in mind management goes hand-in-hand with technology. Stacked herbicide-tolerant traits are a new tool, giving farmers […] Read more
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U.S. EPA to require weed-resistance restrictions on glyphosate

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Reuters — U.S. regulators will put new restrictions on the world’s most widely used herbicide to help address the rapid expansion of weeds resistant to the chemical, Reuters has learned. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed it will require a weed resistance management plan for glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s immensely popular Roundup […] Read more
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Canola

Canola rotations are key

Recommended crop rotations lower inoculum levels and risk of disease

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Crop rotation is of utmost importance to manage residue and soil-borne diseases, and many insect species,” says Randy Kutcher, cereal and flax pathologist, University of Saskatchewan. Knowing this, it’s surprising that many growers still don’t heed rotation recommendations, especially with the potential for devastating diseases like blackleg. Blackleg is a residue-borne disease, he explains. “Residues […] Read more
Five tips to get your seed off to the right start
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Five tips to get your seed off to the right start

Seed growth specialist Nick Petruic has 5 tips for getting your seed off to the right start

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Nick Petruic is a seed growth specialist for Bayer, based at Avonlea, Sask. He likes to remind his customers that it doesn’t matter how much nitrogen you’ve put on or how weed-free your field is if your seed doesn’t get out of the ground. Petruic has five tips for getting your seed off to the […] Read more
kochia in a canola field
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Practical ways to fight herbicide resistance

Do you have herbicide resistant weeds growing in your field? 


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Brian Wintonyk wants farmers to be able to identify herbicide resistant weeds in their fields and know what to do about them. Wintonyk, western crops agronomist with Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc., was on the agenda at the third annual Grain Expo, a crop production conference held in Regina in conjunction with Agribition in November. He […] Read more
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Crops, Features

Avoiding herbicide resistance

Worried weed scientists gather to discuss the future of weed control without new chemistry

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The loss of glyphosate is something that we should all lament,” said Steven Powles, director of Australia’s Herbicide Resistance Initiative. Powles compared the importance of glyphosate to penicillin, calling it a one-in-100 year herbicide. Powles was speaking to a gathering of weed scientists at the Weed Science Society of America’s second herbicide resistance summit in […] Read more
Wild oats present in a grain crop.
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Using ecological systems

Diversified, long-term crop rotations can pay off for Prairie farmers with strong management skills who are prepared to invest the time to carry them out


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Updated Sept. 19, 2014 – Canadian farmers have good management skills, but those skills aren’t being rewarded in the conventional system, says a Manitoba researcher. “On well-managed organic farms, or ecological farms, I’ve seen farmers really being rewarded for their management skills,” says Dr. Martin Entz of the University of Manitoba. Entz says there is […] Read more

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