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Dual Action Against Fusarium

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 3, 2011

Anew broad-spectrum fungicide with two Group 3 actives against leaf and head disease in wheat and barley is billed as the “most effective” fungicide to suppress fusarium head blight. Bayer CropScience Canada has announced registration in Western Canada for its tebuconazole and prothioconazole product, Prosaro, to be available at participating ag retailers for the 2011

Cereals, Crops

CGC Tracking Shifts In Fusarium Head Blight

By Allan Dawson February 10, 2011

Toxin levels in fusariuminfected Manitoba wheat have been increasing rapidly relative to the number of fusarium-damaged kernels (FDK). But this crop year, the levels of the toxin DON (deoxynivalenol) are closer to the old one-to-one ratio with FDK, says Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) agronomist Mike Grenier. “The DON levels aren’t as high (relative to FDK)

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

2010 Was A Good Year On The Bug Front

December 16, 2010

There were few insect problems in cereal crops in 2010. Armyworms were a concern in some fields. Shipments of larvae of cereal leaf beetle containing the parasitoid Tetrastichus julis (Eulophidae) were released in some fields near Swan River. In canola, cutworms were a problem in some fields. Root maggots and damage to plants was noticed

Hogs, Livestock

Watch For Mycotoxins In This Season’s Grain

November 25, 2010

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alber ta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. This year’s cool, wet weather not only delayed harvest, but also produced higher-than-normal incidence of fusarium mould in grain. Producers are being warned that high

Cereals, News

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

By Allan Dawson September 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

Crops

New Fusarium Strain Results In More Potent Toxins – for Aug. 26, 2010

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 26, 2010

Aresearch project financed by farmers through the Western Grains Research Foundation helped quantify the prevalence of a potent new strain of toxins created by fusarium head blight. Kelly Turkington, a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lacombe, Alta., and Randall Clear, a mycologist with the Canadian Grain Commission, were aware of a new

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

BASF Launches New Fusarium Fungicide

June 17, 2010

BASF Canada has received Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) registration for Caramba fungicide, a new systemic triazole fungicide for use on wheat, oats, barley and rye. “This is great news for cereal growers,” said Mike Bakker, fungicide brand manager with BASF Canada. Caramba combines protection against fusarium head blight with premium leaf disease control. The

Cereals, Crops, Pulses

Brandon Researchers On The Hunt For Root Rot Pathogens

By Daniel Winters June 17, 2010

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

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

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