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Cold plasma tapped as grain mycotoxin solution

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Glacier FarmMedia – Canadian researchers are harnessing a high-tech concept to decontaminate grain. They’re using cold plasma, which is created by electrical discharge in a low-pressure gas. One of the most common uses is in florescent lighting, which creates light with little heat. Cold plasma is the fourth state of matter, alongside solid, liquid and[...]
Cereals, Crops

Solid footing for Manitoba’s winter cereal crops

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Manitoba’s winter cereals are off to a good start. Anne Kirk, cereals specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, and Alex Griffiths, agronomist with the winter wheat program of Ducks Unlimited Canada, both report plenty of fields in good shape, particularly those seeded in the prime window in early to mid-September. “We have had some moisture this September,[...]
Cereals, Crops

Goss’s wilt bears watching for corn growers

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A corn disease that gained a foothold in Manitoba a few years ago is one to watch, according to a provincial crops specialist. Veronica Owusu, crop production extension specialist with Manitoba Agriculture out of Gimli, says agronomists and farmers should check for Goss’s wilt. The bacterial disease has moved north from the American Midwest and[...]
Cereals, Crops

Winter wheat is for the birds — and farmers

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GROWTH After falling for years, winter wheat acres are on the rebound in Manitoba and a rebate program is helping

Seeded acres of winter wheat in Manitoba have increased for the second straight year, and that’s welcome news for Alex Griffiths, a crop specialist with Ducks Unlimited Canada. “It’s been kind of an interesting curve to follow,” Griffiths said. “We had peaks in 2008 and 2013, when there were about 600,000 acres planted in Manitoba.[...]
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

If farmers keep misusing glyphosate, they may lose it

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If Canadian farmers want to keep using glyphosate they must stop misusing glyphosate. That blunt message was delivered earlier this summer during a ‘Keep it Clean’ webinar to agronomists and retailers, who were urged to pass it on to their farmer-clients. “We all know the value of glyphosate, but to be very blunt about it,[...]
Cereals, Crops

Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate

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The University of Manitoba’s farm-based organic wheat-breeding program is ready to start towards commercialization, but the body responsible for recommending new genetics to the CFIA says there is still work to be done. Jamie Larsen, chair of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT), says a proposed trial plan submitted this year[...]
Cereals, Crops

Feeding yield, not disease

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Agronomist Peter Johnson thinks fungicide and nitrogen are a match made in heaven and a late fungicide pass may help bolster yield in wheat. Johnson, of RealAgriculture, turned his talk to wheat yield during the recent BASF Knowledge Harvest event in Brandon. The cereal has become a gap filler in between crops like soybeans and[...]
Cereals, Crops

Planting winter wheat this fall?

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This year’s relatively early canola harvest will let Manitoba farmers seed winter wheat earlier too, but Lionel Kaskiw warns growers to break the “green bridge” to prevent wheat streak mosaic infections. Most often winter wheat is seeded in early September into canola stubble. “We’re definitely at a stage this year where we can get out[...]
Cereals, Crops, Local news

Aphid-borne virus found in Manitoba oat fields

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Oat fields in central Manitoba are fighting off barley yellow dwarf virus. “We see it from year to year,” Man­itoba Agriculture field crop pathologist Holly Derksen said. “I think this is probably the most severe that I’ve seen it in fields, but that being said, it’s historically been present in Manitoba and in varying levels.”[...]

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