Up – for Aug. 5, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] or call 204-944-5762. August 17:Manitoba Soil Science Society Summer Tour “The Interlake Influence.” Bus leaves Winnipeg at 7:45 a. m. and returns at 8:30 p. m. Lunch and supper included. For more info, contact Kim Brown-Livingston (MAFRI) at 745-0226 or visit the MSSS website at: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/afs/soil_science/MSSS/. Sept. 8

Brandon Researchers On The Hunt For Root Rot Pathogens

Studies at the Brandon Research Centre have not yet turned up fusarium graminearum in root rot pathogens affecting local peas and dry beans. Last year, researchers began looking at the possibility that the fungus responsible for fusarium head blight in wheat could infect those crops after a recent report from North Dakota discovered that the


New Two-Row Barley Varieties On The Way

“You have to throw away about 99 per cent of it in order to keep the good one per cent. Barley breeding is a bit like searching for a needle in a haystack. Bill Legge, a research scientist at the Brandon Research Centre specializing in two-row barley, will be adding a fourth variety in the