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Oat plants in central Manitoba display chlorosis discolouration, one of the first signs of barley yellow dwarf virus.
Cereals, Crops, Local news

Aphid-borne virus found in Manitoba oat fields

The virus, and its associated chlorosis and premature maturation, has been noted in several 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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Wheat Board has bad news for grain producers

Our History: August 1998

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With BSE still to appear in Canada in August 1998, it may not have been realized just how important our Aug. 13 front-page story would be. Former Canadian Cattlemen’s Association general manager told his annual meeting in Edmonton about the new project to develop a national cattle identification program. There was little good news for
Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Hot weather advances crops, hurts some canola in process

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for August 8

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Moderate to hot weather from past weeks has advanced crops, but also caused some injury in canola. Rainfall occurred throughout the province, but in many areas more is still needed. Harvest has begun in winter cereals and field peas with good yields and quality reported. Insect monitoring is on-going in many crops, but disease incidence
KAP advisory council delegates debated nine resolutions July 13 in Brandon, including one that calls on KAP to investigate the consequences and possible penalties for American farmers who misrepresent grain they deliver to a Canadian elevator.
Cereals, Crops, Local news

KAP wants U.S. farmers held accountable for misrepresented grain

Delegates want to know if the same penalties apply to U.S. farmers who break the rules

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The Americans are pushing for their wheat to be graded the same as Canadian wheat when delivered to a Canadian elevator. That prompted a resolution to the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) to investigate the consequences and possible penalties for American farmers who misrepresent grain they deliver to a Canadian elevator. “The reason we brought this
George Gray, reeve of RM of Dufferin, spoke at the Manitoba Planning Conference earlier this spring about why Dufferin came to adopt its own tile drainage bylaw.
Crops, Local news

Dufferin’s tile drainage bylaw a ‘template’ for others

The Red River Basin Commission is currently guiding development of a tile drainage 
bylaw template based on the RM’s work

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Rural municipalities are responsible for controlling drainage, and a few years ago the RM of Dufferin realized that needed to include tile drains. Former reeve, Shawn McCutcheon saw tiling becoming more widely adopted, and could see need for a made-in-Dufferin approach to managing it, said current reeve, George Gray. “We knew it was going to
Fusarium in wheat.
Crops, Local news

Beneficials on the rise against soybean aphids, root rot, fusarium in fields

Manitoba Insect & Disease Update for August 2

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Diamondback moth continues to be a concern in some areas, although it is the pupa stage that is now dominant in some fields. Soybean aphids surpassed economic threshold in some fields. In some soybean fields natural enemy populations seem to be building in response to the soybean aphids. Bertha armyworms are being monitored, and high levels of larvae have
Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim.
Crops

U.S. bee numbers growing

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CNS Canada – Honeybee populations are rising in the United States, turning around a recent trend of declines attributed to a set of factors know as colony collapse disorder. It’s estimated that 84,430 hives were lost to the disorder in the first quarter this year. That’s down 27 per cent from a year earlier. Year-over-year
Argentine wheat seedings slowed by rain
Cereals, Crops, Weather

Argentine wheat seedings slowed by rain

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CNS Canada – Argentina’s hope for a near-record wheat crop have been dampened by excessive rain and below-average seedings. With planting nearly complete, the United States Department of Agriculture office in Buenos Aires has estimated the Argentine wheat crop at 12.8 million acres. That falls about one million acres below the official USDA forecast of

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