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Wet conditions have made fungicide spraying difficult for ground application. Photo: Thinkstock
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Fungal diseases posing an issue with Manitoba crops

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As crop conditions vary across Manitoba, the latest crop report noted that frequent rains and warm temperatures have increased the risk of a number of fungal diseases. Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development (MARD) said farmers continued to apply fungicides on their wheat, oats, barley, canola, and pea crops. However, wet conditions in a number of
Fungal disease risk on the rise, soybeans see rapid growth
Crop Report, Crops, News

Fungal disease risk on the rise, soybeans see rapid growth

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 12, July 26, 2022

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Overview Rainfall amounts varied across the province with the highest amounts falling in the Eastern and Interlake regions. Most locations in Manitoba received between 20 to 60 mm in the preceding seven days. The Northwest region is the exception, where rainfall amounts ranged from 1 to 32 mm. Frequent rains and generally warm temperatures have
Saskatchewan Agriculture’s special crops specialist says that lentils are in good condition in that province. Photo: Thinkstock
Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan crops growing well despite threats

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MarketsFarm – Pulse crops across Saskatchewan are growing well for the most part, but not in every corner of the province, according to the province’s own specialist. Dale Risula, special crops specialist for Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Agriculture, said this year’s pulse crops are looking much better than those in last year’s drought, which he called
Dennis Lange at the 2022 Crop Diagnostics School.
Crops, Pulses

Scout early for blight in peas

High moisture makes diligence even more important this season

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Manitoba agronomists recommend that farmers scout now for mycosphaerella blight in field pea crops. High moisture conditions this year are likely to result in more disease pressure. “The scouting time would be right around early flowering and some fields have started to flower already,” said Dennis Lange, provincial pulse specialist. According to Manitoba Pulse and
John Heard discusses methods to reduce nitrous oxide emissions through nitrogen management.
Crops

New program funds farm emissions reduction practices

Prairie Watersheds Climate Program offers incentives toward control of nitrous oxide emissions; N management field tour coming up July 29

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A new program is taking aim at agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Last month, the Manitoba Association of Watersheds (MAW) launched the first phase of the Prairie Watersheds Climate Program, a part of the federal government’s On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF). That’s a $200 million, three-year fund (from 2021 to 2024) that underwrites 12 different programs
Biostimulants sometimes have a big effect but a multi-year study by Farming Smarter found only a modest yield bump in peas, nothing much for wheat and nothing at all for canola, said researcher Gurbir Dhillon.
Crops

It’s still ‘wait and see’ country when it comes to biostimulants

A multi-year study has found some products work sometimes on some crops, but it’s hit and miss

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Biostimulants work. Sort of. Sometimes. Depending. Dubbed the ‘vitamin supplements of farming,’ there are a wide range of biostimulants and they work — or don’t — in a host of different ways. Sometimes they’re worth applying and sometimes not, a three-year study by Farming Smarter suggests. “We did see an increase in yield for some crops, especially field
News

Ukraine harvests first million tonnes of 2022 grain, farm ministry says

Invasion reduced sowing area for the season by 25 per cent

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Ukrainian farmers have threshed the first million tonnes of grain of the 2022 grain harvest from about three per cent of the sowing area, the Ukrainian agriculture ministry said July 8. The ministry said farmers had harvested 1.1 million tonnes of grain from 417,300 hectares with the average yield of 2.63 tonnes per hectare. Ministry data showed
File photo of a field of soybeans under turbines at southern Manitoba’s St. Joseph wind farm. (Dougall_Photography/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba’s crops in ‘better situation’ than last year

Lost acreage still a question mark

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MarketsFarm — Despite varied amounts of rainfall across the southern half of Manitoba over the past few weeks, pulses are faring quite well according to the province’s pulse specialist. Dennis Lange, who’s based at Altona, said while peas in fields with excessive moisture are struggling, those grown in adequate moisture and lighter soils are in
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Crops, Weather

Hail damage rescue treatments ineffective

Recent research shows treating hail-damaged crops with nutrients or fungicides does nothing to increase yields after damage

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Every summer, the perennial question is raised of whether to apply rescue treatment to crops damaged by hail. And every summer, the question was unanswered. Until now. At a recent Crop Talk webinar, Manitoba Agriculture soil fertility expert John Heard drew attention to an Alberta study that sought to find an answer. “I can report today on some

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