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Late blight infections in tomatoes can spread to potatoes. Late blight can affect tomato leaves, fruit and stems. On leaves spots are not restricted by leaf veins and often have a lighter-green edge.

Late blight hits Manitoba late, but still a concern

Gardeners can take action now to ensure they aren’t sources of infection next year

By Allan Dawson September 22, 2015

With late blight infections on the rise in Manitoba potato fields this fall, home gardeners should be vigilant so as not to be a source of infection next year, says Vikram Bisht, Manitoba Agriculture, Foods and Rural Development’s potato and horticultural crops plant pathologist. The first case of late blight this season was confirmed Sept.

Crops, Local news

Manitoba’s first late blight infection found in potato field near Carberry

Home gardeners need to be vigilant now to avoid spreading the fungal disease next year

By Allan Dawson September 15, 2015

Late blight, the fungal disease responsible for the Irish potato famine, has been found in the Carberry area for the first time this year. Commercial potato growers should apply fungicides to protect uninfected fields and treat infected ones, but it’s home gardeners Vikram Bisht wants to get a warning to. Potatoes infected with late blight

Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 15

Conditions as of August 10, 2015

By Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development August 12, 2015

The 2015 harvest was slowed by the continuing wet conditions in Manitoba. However, some harvest operations did occur where field and weather conditions allowed. Winter wheat yields are ranging from 55 to 90 bushels per acre, with good quality. Swathing or preharvest management of the earliest-seeded spring cereal and canola crops continues. The return to

Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 14

Conditions as of August 4, 2015

By Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development August 4, 2015

Winter wheat and fall rye harvest is underway in Manitoba. Preliminary reports indicate winter wheat yields range from 60 to 85 bu/acre, with low levels of fusarium damaged kernels in harvested samples. There are also a few fields of spring wheat, barley and field peas harvested last week. Swathing or preharvest applications in the earliest-seeded spring

Blackleg infections girdle canola stalks preventing the plant from taking up moisture and nutrients. Sometimes the disease will appear in strips of what appears to be prematurely ripening canola, which occurs sometimes with sclerotinia, another fungal disease that attacks canola.

Oilseeds

To spray or not to spray canola for blackleg?

Longer canola rotations and switching varieties can reduce the need and cost of a fungicide

By Allan Dawson June 29, 2015

The best time to spray canola with a fungicide to control blackleg is at the two- to four-leaf stage, but there are things farmers can do to avoid having to spray at all and save money, says Anastasia Kubinec, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development’s (MAFRD) oilseed specialist. “Blackleg becomes a greater risk when you

(Michael Thompson photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Weather

Wet weather brings disease worries to Man. winter wheat

By GFM Network News, Terryn Shiells June 24, 2015

CNS Canada — Excess moisture in parts of central Manitoba could bring disease problems to winter wheat fields in the region. Fungicide spraying has occurred to control diseases such as fusarium head blight and leaf diseases, but farmers are running into some problems with applications, according to Bruce Burnett, crop specialist with CWB in Winnipeg.

The treatment works by introducing a beneficial fungus which consumes the harmful fusarium strain. photo: lionel kaskiw, MAFRD

Cereals, Crops, News

A new biocontrol for fusarium head blight in cereals coming

An Ontario company will use a fungal organism found on a Manitoba field pea leaf  to ward off FHB and possibly other fungi

By Allan Dawson August 25, 2014

Fighting fungi with fungi. That’s how an Ontario company plans to use an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) discovery to control fusarium head blight in wheat and other cereal crops. Adjuvants Plus Inc. at Kingsville, Ont. has reached a 10-year licensing agreement with AAFC to use its patented technology — a fungal organism called Clonostachys

The banded sunflower moth. The economic threshold for control in confectionery sunflowers is two per head. The ideal crop stage for control is R4 to R5.1.  photo: anastasia kubinec MAFRD

Crops, Oilseeds

Time to scout sunflower fields

Farmers should be watching for two disease and insect pests

By Allan Dawson August 7, 2014

Sunflower growers should scout their fields for sunflower rust, sclerotinia head rot, lygus bugs and the banded sunflower moth, says Anastasia Kubinec, oilseed specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. The four pests can affect sunflower yield and quality, especially in confectionery sunflowers where the seed is sold for human consumption. “You have to

This filed of canola is at the 50 per cent bloom stage. The optimum time to apply a fungicide to protect canola from sclerotinia is at 20 to 30 per cent bloom, but it can be applied up to 50 per cent bloom. photo lionel kaskiw, mafrd

Crops, Oilseeds

Tools to assess sclerotinia risk in canola

The risk was high last week, but it might not be this week

By Allan Dawson July 18, 2014

The sclerotinia risk was high in most of Manitoba last week, but it may have changed this week and the risk could be different a week from now, says Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) oilseed specialist Anastasia Kubinec. That’s why it pays farmers to assess the risk to their own canola crops before

Spring wheat infected with fusarium head blight.

Cereals, Crops, News

‘Interesting weather’ raises fusarium head blight risk

Winter wheat is at risk now with spring wheat soon to follow

By Allan Dawson July 3, 2014

The fusarium head blight risk in most of Manitoba was rated “extreme” June 26 by Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) and was expected to remain that way this week. “People should be getting prepared to protect their (winter and spring wheat) crops (with a fungicide),” MAFRD plant pathologist Vikram Bisht said in an

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