Scouting early can help protect Manitoba crops from pest insects like flea beetles, cutworms or grasshoppers.
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Watch early for insect crop pests
Scouting early can help Manitoba farmers protect against crop-damaging insects this year
Insecticides losing ground against potato pests in Western Canada
Resistance to insecticides is complicating pest control, prompting experts to advocate for farmers in North America to use more integrated pest management strategies in their potato fields
Resistance to insecticides is complicating pest control in potatoes, prompting experts to urge farmers in North America to use more integrated pest management strategies in their potato fields.
Chemical costs are down — but for how long?
Agricultural chemical prices are down, but rising raw material costs and market volatility from, among other things, tariffs and a potential trade war, could bring on a rise
Agricultural chemical prices are down, but rising raw material costs and market volatility from, among other things, tariffs and a potential trade war, could raise them again.
Manitoba’s biggest crop pests of 2024
Flea beetles, cutworms, armyworms, lygus bugs and more all ate away at farm profits last year in Manitoba
Manitoba provincial entomologist John Gavloski discusses the province’s top agricultural pests.
Insects, weather top 2024 crop stories at Manitoba Ag Days
Manitoba Agriculture experts look back on 2024 and the crop issues they saw producers fighting
Manitoba Agriculture experts at Manitoba Ag Days 2025 run down the weather, insect and other issues they saw producers fighting in the 2024 growing season.
Leveling the crop protection field between mustard and canola
Canola and mustard often have the same crop management problems, but not always the same tools to address them
While mustard growers face many of the same agronomic problems as canola growers, they often have fewer crop protection options to deal with those field challenges.
Bayer launches VT4PRO at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show 2024
Bayer CropScience is bringing a new weapon to the fight against corn rootworm and other yield-robbing insects, VT4PRO.
Fruit farmers urged to control spotted wing drosophila
Fruit flies are a problem in Manitoba fruit crops this year
Fruit growers in Manitoba are being warned to gain control of spotted wing drosophila before the pests wreak havoc on this summer's crop and their bottom line.
Wireworms a persistent insect pest on the Prairies
Nestled in the soil and hard to kill, wireworms are a headache for Manitoba growers
They’ll survive what would kill other crop pests. Some species will eat each other. If food is scarce, they might reverse molt to become smaller and harder to starve. They’ll go after grain crops, potatoes, onions, carrots, strawberries or almost any other field crop. Their tendency to feast on germinating seeds and young shoots under
They’re baack: Canola council urges vigilance with flea beetles
The annual fight with flea beetle pressure is about to begin
Flea beetle damage was relatively low last year compared to the crushing pressure of previous seasons, but producers can’t afford complacency. “There was less foliar insecticide used for flea beetles than the previous years, and maybe less flea beetles to some degree, but there were still a lot of flea beetles out there,” said Manitoba
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