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VIDEO: Scouting flax crops for pasmo

Do you know how to identify this flax disease and when to look for it?

By Allan Dawson July 31, 2017

At the recent Crop Diagnostic School, Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson spoke with Rachel Evans, extension agronomist with the Flax Council of Canada, about what flax producers can do to avoid pasmo appearing in their flax crops. Video editing by Greg Berg.

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Weather conditions see crops quickly advance, disease, insect pressures low

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for July 24, 2017

By Manitoba Agriculture July 24, 2017

Hot and humid weather conditions across much of the province are advancing crops quickly. Winter cereals and some early seeded spring cereals are starting to turn. Areas in the Southwest, Northwest and Central regions are well below normal precipitation and would benefit from rain. Thunderstorms brought damaging winds and hail to some areas of Manitoba.

Crops

Aphids turning up in cereals, peas

By Manitoba Agriculture July 21, 2017

Aphids have been a concern in some cereal and pea fields, according to Manitoba Agriculture’s latest insect and disease update on Wednesday. Aphids have also been reported in corn, and isolated incidence of turnip aphids have been found in canola, the province said. Thistle caterpillar and their webbing continue to be quite noticeable in some

Researchers say a new technique to silence genes is a whole new way of looking at crop protection.

Did you know?, News

‘Gene-silencing’ technique is a crop protection game changer

This spray uses RNA to trick a plant into shutting genes off, thus evading diseases

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 24, 2017

Most crop protection products act by attacking and killing a pest. But a new technique targets the crops themselves, giving them an added ability to ward off pests and diseases by targeting their genes. Researchers at the U.K.’s University of Surrey and Australia’s University of Queensland, have developed a non-toxic, degradable spray which is capable

Field peas in Manitoba started off well (l), but in many cases disease, made worse by excessive rain, took its toll.

Crops

Lessons learned: Some advice on controlling disease in peas, wheat and barley next season

Too much rain and uneven crop staging made it difficult for farmers to apply fungicides at the optimum time

By Allan Dawson September 27, 2016

It’s been a tough year for farmers in southwest Manitoba, with disease hitting many field pea, spring wheat and barley crops hard. While it’s too late to do anything about it this year, there are things farmers can do to try to avoid the same problems in future years, says Lionel Kaskiw, a Manitoba Agriculture

Crops, Local news

Time to scout for lygus bugs in canola and sunflower crops

Manitoba Insect and Disease summary for August 3

By Manitoba Agriculture August 5, 2016

Summary Insects: Insects of highest importance to scout for currently are Lygus bugs in canola and sunflowers, and banded sunflower moths in sunflowers. Only trace levels of soybean aphids have been found so far. Although a couple of traps monitoring adults of bertha armyworm had moderate counts in the Northwest, and a few traps had counts in the uncertain risk

Crops, Local news

Lygus bugs reach economic thresholds in canola fields

Manitoba Insect & Disease summary for July 27

By Manitoba Agriculture July 28, 2016

Summary Insects: Lygus bugs around economic threshold levels have been noted in a few canola fields in eastern Manitoba. Banded sunflower moth adults have also been noted; late bud to early bloom stage is when sunflowers should be monitored for seed feeding insects like banded sunflower moth, Lygus bugs, and red sunflower seed weevils. Trace levels of soybean aphid have been found on soybeans near Fannystelle and Lac du Bonnet;

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: A call for collaboration

By Laura Rance-Unger May 2, 2016

A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and Bangladesh has taken an unusual step in their bid to get ahead of a deadly cereal fungus that has recently surfaced in Bangladesh. They have posted raw genetic data for the wheat blast pathogen on a new website — wheatblast.net. And they are inviting others to

Two fields with high-enough levels of clubroot to produce yield-robbing galls on canola roots have been found in the Swan River area by agronomist Ryan Immerkar.

Crops, Oilseeds

Two fields of canola with clubroot galls found near Swan River

MAFRD’s advice remains the same: soil test for the pest, extend canola  in the rotation and seed resistant varieties if appropriate

By Allan Dawson October 29, 2015

Two canola fields in the Swan River Valley had enough clubroot spores this year to produce yield-robbing root galls that characterize the soil-borne disease, says local agronomist Ryan Immerkar, owner of RSI AgriCoaching and New Era Ag Technology. Laboratory testing confirmed the fields have the potentially devastating pest. That brings the number of Manitoba fields

Cereals, Crops

2015 MCVET winter wheat, fall rye data released

Farmers can use this data to make head-to-head comparisons of varietal performance at specific sites

By Pam De Rocquigny September 9, 2015

Since 2008, MCVET (Manitoba Crop Variety Evaluation Team) has been publishing winter cereal data collected from its trials shortly after harvest to help farmers and seed growers in Manitoba make variety decisions. In 2015, data is being released for five locations — Boissevain, Carman, Melita, Roblin and Winnipeg — for winter wheat and fall rye.

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Corn drops to 12-week low on report of massive stocks, record harvest

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise, hogs fall on WASDE

Resignation of Saskatchewan wheat breeder draws concern

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