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Wireworm are set to take a bite out of potato fields and can be tough to control.

Manitoba potato growers brace for wireworm issue

The loss of Lindane then Thimet has resulted in growing and booming wireworm populations across Canada

By Julienne Isaacs May 26, 2016

A budding wireworm problem for Prairie potato growers is the result of losing two key chemical control products. According to Bob Vernon, a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Agassiz, B.C., that lack of control options makes it a question of when, not if, the problem shows up. First the organophochlorine pesticide Lindane

Our History

Vitavax and the head lice connection

Our History: February 1987

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 11, 2016

Our February 1987 issues had several ads for Vitavax, but it and its manufacturer Uniroyal are now part of history. Vitavax was based on lindane, of which use was discontinued in Canada in 2004 except for the treatment of head lice. Our Feb. 5 issue reported that as a result of the continuing world grain

Crops

Ag chem sector defends 2,4-D over cancer classification

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 23, 2015

North America’s crop herbicide sector is defending one of its classics against a new classification from the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency. The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on Monday released its classification of “possibly carcinogenic to humans” for 2,4-D herbicide, along with new classifications for now-defunct insecticides DDT and lindane.

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WHO agency says insecticides lindane, DDT linked to cancer

By GFM Network News, Kate Kelland June 23, 2015

London | Reuters — The insecticide lindane, once widely used in agriculture and to treat human lice and scabies, causes cancer and has been specifically linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) also said that DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) probably causes cancer, with scientific

Our History

Mulroney government axes entire CTC research staff

Our History: March 1987

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 23, 2015

This advertisement in our March 26, 1987 issue reminds that Lindane-based seed treatments such as Vitavax are no longer registered in Canada. In the news that week, the Mulroney government had axed the Canadian Transport Commission’s entire research staff. This followed slashing of 35 Agriculture Canada research positions the previous year. One analyst noted that

Crops

Researchers need wireworm samples

Wireworm numbers are on the rise and Ag Canada researchers need samples to develop control methods

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 28, 2014

Producers can help in the effort to find a wireworm control solution by submitting samples to Canada’s wireworm research team. “Lindane (such as Vitavax Dual) insecticide kept wireworm numbers low for several decades on the Prairies,” says Neil Whatley, crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. “(But) since the ban of this organochlorine pesticide

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Manitoba potato growers brace for wireworm issue

Vitavax and the head lice connection

Ag chem sector defends 2,4-D over cancer classification

WHO agency says insecticides lindane, DDT linked to cancer

Mulroney government axes entire CTC research staff

Researchers need wireworm samples

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