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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

Crops

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

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

News

More Crops Added To Pulse Seed Treatment Label

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 11, 2010

Syngenta Crop Protection’s pea and dry bean seed treatment Cruiser Maxx Pulses has now been cleared for use in Canada as a treatment for chickpeas, lentils, lupins and faba beans. Cruiser Maxx Pulses, a combination of active ingredients thiamethoxam, metalaxyl-M and fludioxonil, is offered as a co-pack of Cruiser 5FS and Apron Maxx RTA or

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

Livestock

Scientists Target Fusarium Mycotoxins

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 17, 2009

University of Guelph scientists have found a potential tool to reduce the effects of deoxynivalenol (DON), a common mycotoxin produced by the cereal crop fungus fusarium head blight. Chris Hall, a professor in Guelph’s School of Environmental Sciences worked with recent PhD graduate Patrick Doyle, lead author of a paper published recently in the Journal

Cereals, Crops, News

MSGA Honours U Of M Plant Breeder Anita Brûlé-Babel

By Allan Dawson December 17, 2009

University of Manitoba plant breeder Anita Brlé-Babel has received an Honorary Life Membership award from the Manitoba Seed Growers’ Association (MSGA). The award, presented Dec. 9 at the MSGA annual banquet in Winnipeg, is in recognition of Brlé-Babel’s significant contributions to the pedigreed seed industry. Brlé-Babel specializes in wheat breeding and genetics and teaches several

Cereals, Crops, News

SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Feed Grain

November 12, 2009

FUSARIUM RESISTANT, HIGH yielding feed wheat. Suitable for ethanol production & livestock production. For more information: Log on to www.wfgd.caor call: 1-877-250-1552. Funding by Cooperative Promotions Board.

Cereals, News

CFIA Confusing Millers With Fusarium Inspections

By Alex Binkley October 29, 2009

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is sowing confusion and uncertainty among Canadian millers with increased inspections of its plants and products for evidence of fusarium contamination, the Commons agriculture committee has heard. Derek Jamieson, vice-president of the P&H Milling Group, told the MPs the agency has stepped up its inspections “without any prior consultation or

News

Watch For Mouldy Corn

By Allan Dawson October 29, 2009

Mould is showing up in some Manitoba cornfields – especially in the southeast – but so far it’s not widespread, said Wilt Billing, area agronomist with Pioneer Hi-Bred. “It’s not catastrophic, just the early signs of mould developing and Mother Nature is going to determine whether it takes off or not,” Billing said in an

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Tag Archives Fusarium

Tighter FHB Regs, Better Management Required

Picking Spray Times Could Get Easier

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

More Crops Added To Pulse Seed Treatment Label

Fusarium Costly Foe For Grain Growers

Scientists Target Fusarium Mycotoxins

MSGA Honours U Of M Plant Breeder Anita Brûlé-Babel

SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Feed Grain

CFIA Confusing Millers With Fusarium Inspections

Watch For Mouldy Corn

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