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Late Blight Moving North

Confirmed cases of late blight have been reported as of June 28 in the northeastern states of Delaware, New York and Virginia, the Manitoba government’s weekly potato news said July 5. No late blight found or reported in Manitoba. The sentinel plots, with potato and tomato plants, also are being regularly inspected, said Vikram Bisht,
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New Fungicide

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Presidio Fungicide, from Valent Canada, Inc., is now registered for use in Canada on brassicas, brassica root vegetables, cucurbits such as pumpkins and cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, grapes, leafy vegetables and potatoes. Presidio is a targeted chemistry for growers with crops threatened by downy mildews. In vegetables, including potatoes, Presidio also controls late blight (Phytophthora infestans),
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Blight Fight Continues

Mani toba potato growers are accustomed to monitoring the wind and weather during the growing season, wondering if this is the week late blight will make its appearance. The annual rite of summer happens because Manitoba has long been an anomoly. While other growing regions have mild winters where living potato tissue can harbour the
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Start Fresh This Spring, Says Vegetable Expert

After last year’s late blight apocalypse, many home gardeners have spent a dreary winter opening tin cans instead of jars of their own delicious preserved tomatoes. Added to that disheartening experience, was the sinking feeling one gets when reaching into the potato bin and pulling out the odd stinky, mushy tuber. There are no guarantees
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Home And Market Garden Losses From Blight Can’t Be Ignored

Most commercial potato farmers sprayed their way through last season and ended up with a normal- enough-looking crop. But 2010 was a heartbreaking year for home gardeners, as a nasty blight worked its way across Manitoba decimating all but the most remote or chemically treated tomatoes. First word of the blight appeared in a June
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Phosphoric Acid Helps In Late Blight Fight

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Manitoba potato producers are looking forward to phosphoric acid being registered for both pre-and post-harvest application for control of late blight. The product, registered under the trade name Confine in Canada, is a promising post-harvest application that prevents the spread of late blight infections in storage to healthy tubers. It’s also showing promise as a
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In A Pickle Over Blight – for Sep. 23, 2010

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Disheartened to see our garden tomatoes infected with blight this year, but determined to salvage something, I took the least-damaged green fruits (nothing ripened this year!), cut off the blemishes and proceeded to can twenty 500-ml jars of green tomato pickle. It was only after the last lid snapped, that I began to wonder: even
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Manitoba Potato Farmers Hope For Average Crop – for Sep. 16, 2010

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Manitoba’s potato harvest was expected to get underway this week amid hopes for a decent crop despite all kinds of disappointment this year. Manitoba potato growers experienced slashed production contracts, torrential summer rains, plant disease and are now battling muddy fields. Surprisingly, then, this year’s potato crop doesn’t look half bad, judging by early indications.
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Manitoba Tomatoes Ravaged By Disease This Year – for Sep. 9, 2010

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Nothing beats the taste of a homegrown, vine-ripened tomato, but there are a lot fewer this year due to fungal diseases that have defoliated plants and rotted the fruit. There’s no controlling it now, but Manitoba gardeners can pick uninfected fruit and let it ripen off the vine. They can also cut out the infected
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Potato Disease Detection Funded – for Aug. 12, 2010

A Quebec firm working on DNA-based disease detection and monitoring for potatoes will get $1.2 million in federal backing. Phytodata Inc. said it’s partnering with McCain Foods Canada to develop such detection systems. The federal funding will go toward work on new and “highly reliable” ways to monitor and detect major airborne diseases in potatoes,

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