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Once you suspect resistance, sending the seed for testing can confirm or allay your fears.
Crops, Features

Are there resistant weeds in your fields?

The answer to this question is probably yes. Testing can give you a definite answer

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Every season more farmers face the challenge of herbicide-resistant weeds. “Herbicide resistance is the genetic capacity of a weed population to survive a herbicide treatment that, under normal use conditions, would effectively control that weed population,” said Dr. Jeanette Gaultier, weed specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. It’s sometimes described as evolution happening at an accelerated pace […] Read more
Slow resistance with layered herbicides
Crops, Features

Slow resistance with layered herbicides

Gowan representatives say layering isn't just about dressing for fickle weather anymore

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Layering herbicides is a way to manage or delay herbicide resistance on the farm. The key is to apply a residual before seeding. The residual creates a herbicide layer in the soil. That layer kills weeds as they try to push emerge. With fewer weeds, there is less selection pressure on herbicides used later in […] Read more
wild oats
Crops

The 4Rs of wild oat control

Agronomy tips... from the field

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You might have heard about the 4Rs of nutrient management: applying the right product at the right rate at the right time and in the right place. Now, we can take those same concepts and apply them to a wild oat program. First — the right product. Look at whether you’re dealing with a light […] Read more
kochia in a canola field
Crops, Features

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
wild oats
Crops, Features

Avadex back in the game to fight herbicide resistant weeds

When herbicide resistant wild oats crop up on you’re farm, you may be looking backwards in time to find a solution with a different, “new” active ingredient

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The Brady Bunch. ABBA cassettes. Avadex. Things we remember fondly, but don’t really see much anymore. Right? Wrong. Avadex is back in town. In 2004, Gowan, an Arizona-based company, bought the formulation and trademarks from Monsanto. As wild oats with resistance to Group 1 and Group 2 herbicides continue to pop up across the Prairies, […] Read more
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Canola, Cereals, Crops, Features

Farming was the right choice

After 40 years of farming, Blair Rempel knows he made the right choice when he chose to come back to the farm

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Blair Rempel has been farming for almost 40 years. The Nipawin area producer and seed grower earned his diploma in agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan, in 1976. He considered other careers but always came back to agriculture. “The things I found attractive was a certain degree of independence and the satisfaction of building your […] Read more
Wild oats present in a grain crop.
Crops, Features

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
alfalfa forage
Crops, Features, Forages

Using alfalfa to solve pitfalls

When canola and wheat prices are falling, consider the benefits of alfalfa

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Perennial legumes, especially alfalfa, bring benefits to a cropping system that can override initial concern many growers may have when it comes to the economics of the practice. Around the world, some countries are concerned about the lack of local available water for growing their own forage. “There is a growing trend for longer-term commitments […] Read more

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