stripe rust Archives

Cereal leaf disease minimal in Alberta but be aware of blown-in stripe rust

By Jeff Melchior July 26, 2024

The province received variable precipitation this spring which had pathologists and producers expecting the arrival of members of the leaf spot complex. However, Kelly Turkington with the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lacombe Research and Development Centre said they may have been scorched by the July heat wave.

Stripe rust overwintered further north than usual going into the 2016 growing season, Cargill’s Linda Freitag said at SWAC. (OMAFRA photo)

Crops, Weather

Greig: Lessons learned from Ontario crops’ pest pressures

By GFM Network News January 9, 2017

The warmer winter and subsequent drought defined the 2016 cropping season in Ontario, resulting in more disease and insect pressures and then challenges managing them. Three agronomists gave an overview of the 2016 cropping season at the SouthWest Agricultural Conference in Ridgetown, outlining challenges and wins for the year. Leanne Freitag, Cargill’s manager of agronomy […] Read more

A sclerotinia-infected canola stem. Eastern Prairie crops are expected to face added disease pressure. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Crops, Weather

Rain increases disease pressures on eastern Prairies

By GFM Network News June 28, 2016

CNS Canada — The recent batch of wet weather across parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been a welcome relief to some fields that were suffering from excess dryness. However, soggy conditions have also enabled certain disease pressures to rear their ugly head, according to some government specialists. “Root rot is showing up in peas […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

Stripe rust on the horizon for winter wheat

Keep an eye on the weather. Precipitation may bring you more than just moist soil

By Julienne Isaacs June 14, 2016

Stripe rust is moving up the Pacific Northwest, so western Canadian producers might see infections in winter wheat this spring, says Randy Kutcher, associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Last year, there was a lot of stripe rust throughout the continent, but it was too dry on the Prairies to become a major concern […] Read more

Stripe rust can cause significant yield losses for wheat growers. (Yue Jin photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Weather, Winter Wheat

Pearce: Stripe rust in winter wheat is Ontario’s biggest threat

By Ralph Pearce, GFM Network News May 29, 2016

Normally, stripe rust in winter wheat isn’t a huge problem for growers in Eastern Canada, and particularly in Ontario — at least, not at this stage of the growing season — but the 2016 growing season isn’t shaping up to be “normal” either. For now, the immediate challenge before growers is to get out and […] Read more

Stripe rust in wheat. (Yue Jin photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Cereals, Crops, Weather

Manitoba rust diseases dissipate as fusarium appears

By GFM Network News July 16, 2015

CNS Canada –– The spread of leaf and stripe rust in southern Manitoba appears to be over. The diseases, which generally target cereal crops, were thought to have blown up from the northern U.S. in late spring. Fields near Carman and Killarney both tested positive for rust in winter and spring wheat. Recent warm weather, […] Read more

Crops, Spring Wheat, Weather, Winter Wheat

Rusts enter southern Manitoba from U.S.

By GFM Network News June 19, 2015

CNS Canada — While fusarium head blight and wheat streak mosaic have already popped up in Manitoba fields, a new strain of disease is making its presence felt in the province’s south. Stripe rust and leaf rust appear to have blown in from the United States. Pam de Rocquigny of Manitoba’s agriculture department said the […] Read more

Crops, Winter Wheat

Stripe rust reported in County of Forty Mile and in Parkland Co

By Mike Harding May 5, 2015

Stripe rust has been reported on older leaves of winter wheat all across central and southern Alberta. Frequent scouting and monitoring of stripe rust in winter wheat is strongly urged. Protection with a fungicide application may be required at flag leaf emergence if the disease begins to move into the upper canopy in susceptible winter […] Read more

Cereals, News

Producers, start scouting: stripe rust is spreading north

Producers in central Alberta — and even the Peace region — need to start scouting their winter wheat fields for signs of stripe rust

By Jennifer Blair April 29, 2015

Stripe rust overwintering on three winter wheat fields in the Edmonton area is “concerning,” says a provincial winter wheat agronomist. “Last year, stripe rust overwintered in the central Alberta region, near Lacombe, Red Deer, and Olds, which was alarming because it really hasn’t overwintered in years,” said Janine Paly of Ducks Unlimited Canada. “Last year, […] Read more

Cereals

Stripe rust update for southern and central Alberta

By Mike Harding April 28, 2015

Stripe rust continues to be reported in southern and central Alberta. Eric Amundsen at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lethbridge surveyed winter wheat fields for stripe rust last week and reported finding the disease in five of 12 fields (two in Cardston County, one field in each of Lethbridge County, County of Warner and M.D. […] Read more

Eastern wheat to be included in Cereals Canada’s harvest assessment

August grain deliveries down from 2024: StatCan

Saskatchewan Crop Report: Harvest advances despite rains

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