Blackleg continues to be a challenge for canola growers despite recent dry years on the Prairies.
Having a good crop rotation plan is a great place to start in order to limit blackleg severity, but you can also improve your level of resistance to the crop disease by using the corresponding canola genes.
Here, Dane Froese with Manitoba Agriculture offers a quick explainer on why ‘matching the puzzle piece’ is essential to keeping blackleg in check and reveals how growers can unearth the canola genes that will offer the best blackleg resistance in their fields.
Video by Greg Berg
