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Crop Report – for Jul. 29, 2010

By Manitoba Agriculture July 29, 2010

SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall over the past week varied. Warm weather helped the crop advance, however rainfall kept many producers from haying until the weekend. Producers will start desiccating winter wheat towards the end of the week. Some fall rye has been cut. Some of the fall rye has been put up for silage and yields

Cereals, Crops, Forages

Crop Report – for Jul. 22, 2010

By Manitoba Agriculture July 22, 2010

SOUTHWEST REGION Spotty rainshowers over the past week resulted in varying amounts of precipitation. Earlyseeded cereal crops are filling and several areas are reporting high levels of leaf disease. Laterseeded cereal crops are tillering and starting to head. Earlyseeded canola is podding and has handled the excess moisture well. Later-seeded canola is in full flower

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SPRAYcast Manitoba Is On The Web, Ready To Use

By Allan Dawson July 1, 2010

SPRAYcast Manitoba Location: 49.36Nm -98.24W Boom Height: 1.2 metres (4 feet) This is an advisory based on the available weather forecast. Operators must always conform to both label and actual conditions in the field at time of application. Do not use the advisory to spray under conditions that are prohibited by local, provincial or federal

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Disease Threatens What’s Left

By Allan Dawson June 17, 2010

From 10,000 feet, the muddy Prairie fields below soaked with unprecedented rains this spring can be described in one word: dismal. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) predicts farmers will seed only 19.2 million acres of wheat and 6.6 million of barley – the smallest acreages since 1971 and 1965, respectively. It estimates 8.5 million to

Cereals, Crops, News

New Two-Row Barley Varieties On The Way

By Daniel Winters June 3, 2010

“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

Cereals, Crops, News

Tighter FHB Regs, Better Management Required

By Allan Dawson May 27, 2010

“The new tolerances are designed to meet market needs but also to be fair to producers when fusarium is a grading factor in their wheat.” – ELWIN HERMANSON FUSARIUM DAMAGE TOLERANCES August 1, 2010: Revise fusarium damage tolerances in CWRS, CWHWS, CWAD, CPSR, CWSWS and CW Feed. Wheat Class CWRS CWHWS CWAD CPSR CPSW CWSWS

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Picking Spray Times Could Get Easier

By Allan Dawson April 1, 2010

“You can get a comfort level as you keep changing the scenarios.” – IAN NICHOLS Anew tool to help farmers pick the best time to spray crops with pesticides could be available in Manitoba this spring. SprayCast is a web-based program that forecasts the optimum spray time within a three-day window designed by Weather INnovations

Cereals, Crops

Winter Cereals Manitoba Focused On Research

By Allan Dawson March 18, 2010

Winter Cereals Manitoba (WCM) has money in the bank and the farmer-funded organization knows exactly where it’s going: research. Two projects are already planned, but WCM chair and Birtle-area farmer Garth Butcher told the organization’s annual meeting here March 10 he wants to hear members’ priorities. WCM collected 50 cents a tonne from around 2,000

Cereals, Crops

Here’s What’s In The Spring Wheat, Triticale Pipeline

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 4, 2010

CWRS WHEATS SUPPORTED FOR REGISTRATION BW410: AAFC STEPHEN FOX Agronomy: Yield within the range of the checks. Maturity, height, straw strength, test weight and kernel weight within the range of the checks. Disease rating: Resistant (R) to leaf rust, moderately resistant (MR) to stem rust, bunt and smut. Intermediate (I) resistance to fusarium head blight

Cereals, Crops, News

Fusarium Costly Foe For Grain Growers

By Alex Binkley January 14, 2010

Fusarium head blight has cost Canada’s grain trade well over $1 billion since it first appeared in a big way in Ontario in the mid-1980s and spread across the West, says Randy Clear of the Canadian Grain Commission. Speaking to a recent conference, he said researchers looking for a way to combat the disease, which

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Tag Archives Fusarium ear blight

Crop Report – for Jul. 29, 2010

Crop Report – for Jul. 22, 2010

SPRAYcast Manitoba Is On The Web, Ready To Use

Disease Threatens What’s Left

New Two-Row Barley Varieties On The Way

Tighter FHB Regs, Better Management Required

Picking Spray Times Could Get Easier

Winter Cereals Manitoba Focused On Research

Here’s What’s In The Spring Wheat, Triticale Pipeline

Fusarium Costly Foe For Grain Growers

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