Tag Archives Manitoba Agriculture
Unearth the pests lurking in your soil
No clipped-off plants yet? You may still have cutworms
Flea beetles, cutworm numbers cause for concern
Manitoba Insect & Disease Update for June 6, 2018
Thin canola stands mean less margin for error for flea beetles
The Prairie Pest Monitoring Network warns that farmers may want to spray once flea beetles start eating a quarter or more of cotyledon leaf space
Four sectors focus of Ag Action Manitoba
Some application deadlines are less than a month away
Winter cereals (mostly) dodge winterkill woes
Winter cereals are looking good this spring, with exceptions in the Interlake and central Manitoba around Winnipeg and Selkirk
Canola producers put on watch against seed burn
Some cereal fields in Manitoba are seeing seed burn, and Manitoba Agriculture is warning farmers to guard against the same problem for canola
Green winter wheat no guarantee it’s alive
Dig up a few plants and look for white roots as a sign they survived winter
Cool soils? Seed cereals, field peas first
Manitoba soil temperatures are increasing, but vary with soil type and location
Potato beetle resistance brewing
Potato producers are getting ready for their yearly fight with Colorado potato beetle, but in some places the products don’t work the way they used to
Getting bugged
Last year was a particularly bad outbreak, but that won’t necessarily carry over