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Fusarium head blight is an ongoing challenge but following best management practices can limit the damage.

Managing fusarium can reduce risk

Nobody can change the weather, but better crop management can hamper the disease’s spread

By Angela Lovell January 17, 2017

Fusarium head blight continues to be a major challenge for Manitoba farmers, but there’s emerging evidence that they may be able to manage around the worst of it. At the recent Manitoba Agronomists Conference in Winnipeg, Dr. Anita Brûlé-Babel of the department of plant sciences at the University of Manitoba shared a number of management

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Low-quality feed being dumped on market

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News January 4, 2017

CNS Canada — Prices for feed barley and wheat don’t appear ready to spike anytime soon, as farmers across Western Canada continue to dump supplies containing high concentrations of vomitoxin and fusarium into feedlots. “Steady as it goes here is the tone,” said Allan Pirness of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. “We’re looking to clean

Cereals, News

VIDEO: Fighting fungus with fungus

By Allan Dawson December 9, 2016

Adjuvants Plus Inc. is working to register a new bio-control for fusarium head blight. Company president and CEO Bill Brown spoke about it at the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight on Nov. 22 in Ottawa. He sat down for an interview with Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson to talk about how the product

Bill Brown, president and CEO of Adjuvants Plus Inc., explained his company’s new product called DONguard during the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight Nov. 22 in Ottawa. It’s a biocontrol for fusarium head blight. Brown said he hopes to have DONguard registered in Canada and the U.S. in 18 months.

Cereals, Crops

New product pits fungus against fungus

If DONguard gets into the plant first, it occupies the space fusarium would take and also consumes invading fusarium, according to the company that hopes to commercialize it

By Allan Dawson December 9, 2016

A new weapon to battle fusarium head blight (FHB) fights fire with fire. The traditional tools have been agronomy, genetic resistance bred into new cultivars and fungicides — the latter sprayed on wheat and other cereal crops to protect them from the potentially devastating fungus disease that can cut yields and quality. But a fungus

More than 200 scientists from Canada and abroad attended the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight Nov. 20-22 in Ottawa. While the potentially devastating fungal disease is on the rise in Western Canada, more tolerant varieties are coming and agronomic techniques to manage the disease have improved.

Cereals, Crops, News

Fusarium conference hears of disease resurgence

Western Canada’s worst crop disease is still a serious issue, researchers say

By Allan Dawson December 2, 2016

This was one of the worst years for fusarium head blight in western Canadian spring wheat — a sobering backdrop to the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, held here Nov. 20-22. More than 200 scientists from Canada, the United States, Germany, England, Australia, Switzerland and beyond reviewed the latest research into fusarium head

A field of finger millet, a crop widely grown by African and Asian subsistence farmers noted for its resistance to fungal disease.

Crops, Did you know?

There may be a natural solution for fusarium

Researchers have identified a plant-microbe interaction that  keeps Fusarium graminearum at bay

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 17, 2016

A microbe found in millet fields may prove to be the key to defeating Fusarium graminearum. Researchers at the University of Guelph, in a paper published in the journal Nature Microbiology, have shown a beneficial interaction between finger millet plants and microbes that live in their roots. This interaction seems to give the crop a

Field peas in Manitoba started off well (l), but in many cases disease, made worse by excessive rain, took its toll.

Crops

Lessons learned: Some advice on controlling disease in peas, wheat and barley next season

Too much rain and uneven crop staging made it difficult for farmers to apply fungicides at the optimum time

By Allan Dawson September 27, 2016

It’s been a tough year for farmers in southwest Manitoba, with disease hitting many field pea, spring wheat and barley crops hard. While it’s too late to do anything about it this year, there are things farmers can do to try to avoid the same problems in future years, says Lionel Kaskiw, a Manitoba Agriculture

Barley is often less susceptible to fusarium infections, but near-perfect conditions for a month this summer set the stage for trouble.

Crops, Local news

Fusarium damage present in some early-harvested western spring cereals

It’s too early for the Canadian Grain Commission to have a complete picture  but downgrading is occurring

By Allan Dawson September 19, 2016

Fusarium head blight has damaged some of Western Canada’s early-harvested spring and durum wheat, but it’s too soon to know the full extent. Daryl Beswitherick, the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) program manager for quality assurance standards and reinspection, said they’ve been seeing signs in the early results from their harvest sampling program. “It is definitely

Crops, Markets

Quality Canadian durum may be in short supply

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin September 7, 2016

CNS Canada — Quality issues with the Canadian durum crop currently being harvested should see the price spreads between top- and low-end grain widen considerably, especially as the carryout from the previous year is also poor quality. Canadian durum stocks, as of July 31, were pegged at 1.1 million tonnes by Statistics Canada in a

Crop Report, Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 19

Conditions as of September 6, 2016

By Manitoba Agriculture September 6, 2016

Harvest 2016 continued across Manitoba with good progress made in cereal crops and canola. However, wet weather over the weekend in some areas of the province impacted harvest operations. Harvest will resume quickly in areas that received lower rainfall amounts and where field conditions allow. Field operations will be delayed in areas that received significant

Daily Network News

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