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Recently retired plant pathologists Andy Tekauz and Jeannie Gilbert will be replaced, but the positions will be in Morden, not Winnipeg
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada isn’t easing up in the battle against fusarium head blight, says the director general for the department’s Prairie/Boreal Plain Ecozone. “Fusarium work is a high priority,” said Stephen Morgan Jones. “It is, along with the rust diseases, a very high priority for us.” Jones said two recently retired fusarium experts fromUntil March 31, 2014, CFIA will still respond to new cases, but will follow only a scaled-back “interim approach”
Facing the fact that the disease has become “established” in U.S. herds, Canadian inspectors will no longer respond to new cases of anaplasmosis starting next spring. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced Feb. 25 it will remove anaplasmosis from Canada’s list of federally reportable diseases effective April 1, 2014, placing it instead on the
