Photo: Greg Berg

The cost of harvest loss

Calibrating your combine to field conditions is essential

Harvest is about to kick into high gear for many Prairie farmers as the race begins to get crops off of fields and into bins. But in that flurry of activity of operating equipment, co-ordinating people – and trying to hit that optimal weather window – are you taking time to minimize harvest loss? “One […] Read more




AgCanadaTV Special Feature: Pasture health indicators

Mae Elsinger, a rangeland and pasture biologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, shares six pasture health indicators forage growers can watch for to help ensure their grassland environment remains productive.


AgCanadaTV Special Feature: Pasture and grassland risks

Mae Elsinger, a rangeland and pasture biologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, discusses some of the risks to forage growth, using insects to manage weeds in pastures, and training cattle to eat spurge.



August 15 to 31: Mitigating sclerotinia in oilseed crops

Sclerotinia is most often found in commodity crops such as canola, sunflower, and dry edible beans. But when – and where – should Manitoba growers focus their attention if their crops become susceptible to the fungus? In this video from last month’s Crop Diagnostic School, David Kaminski with Manitoba Agriculture shows how a sclerotinia infection can find its way into your crop and what steps you can take to lessen the impact it can have on your yield.




Photo: Greg Berg

Spray-timing a fungicide for mycosphaerella blight in peas

Dennis Lange with Manitoba Agriculture talks about the optimal time to spray for mycosphaerella blight and the economic importance for agronomists and growers to know the difference between it and bacterial blight. (Video by Greg Berg, online editor)

Photo: Greg Berg

Mitigating sclerotinia in oilseed crops

Sclerotinia is most often found in commodity crops such as canola, sunflower, and dry edible beans. But when – and where – should Manitoba growers focus their attention if their crops become susceptible to the fungus? In this video from last month’s Crop Diagnostic School, David Kaminski with Manitoba Agriculture shows how a sclerotinia infection […] Read more