Manitoba Tomatoes Ravaged By Disease This Year – for Sep. 9, 2010

Nothing beats the taste of a homegrown, vine-ripened tomato, but there are a lot fewer this year due to fungal diseases that have defoliated plants and rotted the fruit. There’s no controlling it now, but Manitoba gardeners can pick uninfected fruit and let it ripen off the vine. They can also cut out the infected






S – for Sep. 2, 2010

hould you be applying nitrogen when you plant your winter wheat? It turns out there’s no right or wrong answer. Twenty to 40 pounds of phosphorus with the seed is a no-brainer, says John Heard, a soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI). The nutrient is necessary for establishing a good

2010 Winter Wheat Variety Performance Data Now Available – for Sep. 2, 2010

To assist Manitoba farmers with variety selections this fall, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) and MCVET (Manitoba Crop Variety Evaluation Team) is publishing the most recent variety descriptions and performance data for winter wheat. Farmers should consider a number of factors when selecting a winter wheat variety, including yield potential, agronomic and disease


Empty Fields Raise Winter Wheat Potential – for Sep. 2, 2010

Western Canada’s highest unplanted farm area in decades could lead to farmers sowing this summer record-high acres of winter wheat, a Canadian Wheat Board official say. Western Canadian farmers left an estimated 10.5 million acres unplanted this spring due to heavy rains. That has left the land available for planting winter wheat, which farmers sow

Crop Report – for Sep. 2, 2010

SOUTHWEST Rainfall slowed harvest but producers still got in a few days of harvesting, with the most progress seen south of Highway 1. Winter wheat and fall rye harvests are complete with yields reported average to above-average, with average quality. Spring wheat harvest ranges from very little done north of Hwy. 1 to 40 per



Manitoba’s Winter Hammered By Fusarium – for Sep. 2, 2010

Manitoba’s winter wheat crop has so much fusarium head blight damage this year the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) is hoping it can blend it with winter wheat from Saskatchewan and Alberta. To that end the CWB issued a notice to farmers last week asking them to submit winter wheat samples as soon as possible. “Samples