The past couple of years hasn’t been much of an issue for fusarium in wheat crops, but along came the 2024 growing season which has brought a lot of rain – more than 200 per cent of the 30-year average of rainfall in Carman, Man. alone, according to David Kaminski, field crop pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture. In a number of ways it’s been too much of a good thing, bringing along a much higher risk for fusarium developing in wheat crops as well.
At this year’s Crop Diagnostic School, Kaminski set up his demonstration plots to create conditions favourable to the fungus and discuss strategies for growers and agronomists to keep fusarium at bay, as you’ll see and hear above.
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