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U.S. wheats get limited nod for forage use

By Alexis Stockford March 26, 2019

A British Columbia company has got a bit of breathing room in its efforts to promote forage wheats, but it’s not necessarily setting a precedent. Premier Pacific Seeds successfully argued its case to gain a limited interim registration for four U.S. soft winter wheat cultivars (Yamhill, Madsen, Kaseberg and Brudage) were better suited than any[...]

Cereals, Crops

Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate

By Alexis Stockford March 25, 2019

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

Setting up for success as planting season approaches for winter wheat

By Alexis Stockford August 22, 2018

Manitoba’s winter wheat woes this year may have some lessons for the coming crop. Ken Gross, agronomist with the Western Winter Wheat Initiative, says fields that survived their dry planting, harsh winter and hot, dry, growing season this year might offer insight for what will likely be similarly moisture-starved conditions this fall. Winter wheat acreage[...]

Cereals, Crops

Feeding yield, not disease

By Alexis Stockford March 13, 2018

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[...]

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Planting winter wheat this fall?

By Allan Dawson September 11, 2017

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

By Alexis Stockford August 10, 2017

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.”[...]

Cereals, News

Heat LQ, OK for pre-harvest application on wheat, durum and barley

By Allan Dawson August 17, 2017

BASF’s Heat LQ herbicide can now be used pre-harvest in Canada on wheat, durum and barley without potentially hurting export markets, BASF Canada said in a news release Aug. 17. Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for Heat LQ as a harvest aid in cereals has been set by the CODEX Alimentarius Commission (CAC), a United Nation’s[...]

Cereals, Crops

DeRuycks keep rolling with organic cleaning and milling

By Alexis Stockford June 14, 2017

Dan and Fran DeRuyck’s organic grain-cleaning plant is one of the first things a visitor sees when they arrive at Top of the Hill Farm, south of Treherne, Man. The large shed dominates the west side of the yard, bordered by bins which, on any given week, might be filled with anything from wheat, oats,[...]

Cereals, Local news

Manitoba’s first case of stripe rust near Austin overwintered

By Allan Dawson April 19, 2017

The first case of stripe rust this growing season was found in a Manitoba winter wheat field near Austin April 17, but the fungal disease was detected in the same crop last fall. “It definitely overwintered,” Manitoba Agriculture plant pathologist Holly Derksen said during CropTalk Westman webinar April 19. “It’s too early to have blown[...]

Cereals, Crops

Seed quality highly variable

By Angela Lovell January 17, 2017

Seed quality in Manitoba for the upcoming growing season is a mixed bag depending on the crop, according to Holly Gelech, manager of business development for BioVision Seed Labs in Winnipeg. The average germination of wheat seed tested from the 2016 crop is 86.3 per cent, down six per cent from the five-year high of[...]

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U.S. wheats get limited nod for forage use

Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate

Setting up for success as planting season approaches for winter wheat

Feeding yield, not disease

Planting winter wheat this fall?

Aphid-borne virus found in Manitoba oat fields

Heat LQ, OK for pre-harvest application on wheat, durum and barley

DeRuycks keep rolling with organic cleaning and milling

Manitoba’s first case of stripe rust near Austin overwintered

Seed quality highly variable

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