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Special coverage | COVID-19 & the Farm

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Special coverage | COVID-19 & the Farm

VIDEO: 2014 Crop Diagnostic School

Technology playing a key role in crop scouting, providing value and efficiency in field management

By Allan Dawson
Reporter

Reading Time: < 1 minute

Published: July 22, 2014
Crops

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson interviews John Heard of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development about the 2014 Crop Diagnostic School organized by Manitoba Agriculture and the University of Manitoba at the university’s Carman facility.

Video by Allan Dawson

MAFRD’s Anastasia Kubinec says the Manitoba Crop Diagnostic School gives agronomists hands-on training.

Manitoba Crop Diagnostic School focuses on topics important to agronomists

About the author

Allan Dawson

Reporter

Allan Dawson is a reporter with the Manitoba Co-operator based near Miami, Man. Covering agriculture since 1980, Dawson has spent most of his career with the Co-operator except for several years with Farmers’ Independent Weekly and before that a Morden-Winkler area radio station.

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