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fusarium head blight risk in Manitoba
Cereals, Local news

Fusarium Head Blight report for Manitoba

Maps show current FHB risk and how it's evolved over the past week

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Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) has released its latest FHB Risk Map of the season, now posted on the MAFRD website. The map shows the fusarium head blight risk for June 16th based on precipitation and temperature data from the last seven days. A second map displays an animation of the last 7 days to show how
Pupae and larva of redbacked cutworm
Crops, Local news

Manitoba crop insect and disease update – June 9, 2015

Flea beetles in canola and cutworms are the insects of most concern

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Summary Flea beetles in canola and cutworms continue to be the insects of greatest concern. Insecticide applications and some reseeding have occurred because of feeding by these insects. Monitor emerging crops for seedling disease. So far populations of disease vectors have been low. Aphid vectors of barley yellow dwarf have not been seen or reported, and only small populations of
two petri dishes of grain samples
Cereals, Local news

Infrared technology identifies and removes fusarium-infected grain

Technology coming to Winnipeg feed mill will also provide the building blocks for a new biomass fuel

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A Winnipeg feed mill is about to become the first in North America to install infrared grain-sorting technology in a commercial facility. Thanks in part to $1.1 million in funding from Growing Forward 2, Standard Nutrition Canada will integrate two BoMills into its St. Boniface facility over the next four months. The main allure of
handful of grain
Cereals, Crops

Visually assessing grain quality more challenging this year

Falling numbers are down but still good, says the CGC’s David Hatcher


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The visual factors grain inspectors use to estimate falling number and vomitoxin in wheat are never exact, but this year there’s even more variation than usual, says Norm Woodbeck, manager, agri operations with Intertek Commodities Services, a private grain-grading company. “This has driven the industry to do a lot of testing (for the toxin deoxynivalenol)
wheat sorting in a grain facility
Cereals, Crops

Cigi testing fusarium damage-control technology

New equipment shows promise for sorting fusarium kernels out of wheat and durum


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Cigi researchers are working with two technologies that show promise for upgrading fusarium-damaged grain. In partnership with the University of Saskatchewan, the institute has spent three years investigating the possibilities of near-infrared spectroscopy using a Swedish-designed BoMill. The institute has also been looking at the use of optical sorters, and presented both technologies at a
Emerson’s “R” rating for fusarium head blight is driving demand for the new winter wheat.  photo Canterra Seeds
Cereals, Crops

Big demand for “R” rated Emerson winter wheat

Early indications are Canada’s only fusarium head-blight resistant wheat 
performed well despite a high incidence of fusarium this year

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Canada’s first fusarium head-blight resistant wheat variety survived a baptism by fire this summer, which explains why demand for its seed exceeds the available supply. Emerson winter wheat is the first variety to achieve the “R” rating for resistance to fusarium. The level of fusarium head blight infection affecting winter wheat crops in Manitoba in
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

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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
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

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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
Cereals, Crops, News

First fusarium-resistant spring wheat in pipeline

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Launching two new Canadian Prairie Spring red (CPS) wheats, including the first fusarium head blight-resistant spring wheat bred for western Canadian farmers, is a great way to cap a 40-year-long career in planting breeding, says Doug Brown. Ten years in the making, HY1615, which is resistant to the yield-crippling fusarium, and HY1610, which is 10
Cereals, Crops

New wheats in the Prairie pipeline

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The recent Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) meeting marked the first time a feed wheat developed by the Western Feed Grain Development Co-op was recommended for registration. The variety, WFT603, is a Canada Western General Purpose wheat. “The unique thing about this is any farmer in Western Canada can be a

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