Earlier this year at Manitoba Ag Days, Dr. Syama Chatterton, a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, offered a presentation on root rot in pulse crops. In a negative ‘two for one,’ attendees may have been surprised to learn of a connection between root rot and another well-known soil pathogen: fusarium. In this video, Chatterton talks about some of the latest findings on aphanomyces and the one practice growers have in their toolbox to keep root rot from developing in their fields.
At the AgTech Breakfast at Ag in Motion this past summer, Phytokana Ingredients pitched its case for growers to add faba beans into their pulse crop rotations. One main reason? As Drew Sharp says, agribusiness manager for Phytokana, faba beans are an ‘excellent pulse’ in rotation to help interrupt disease cycles such as fusarium or aphanomyces. In this video, Sharp also talks about emerging market opportunities for growers once their faba beans are harvested.
