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Anastasia Kubinec
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VIDEO: Count your flowers before deciding to spray canola for sclerotinia

Crop Diagnostic School: Whether your pants get wet when walking through the field can tell you if it's a good time to spray a fungicide

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Assessing your canola crop during the flowering stage is essential to discover if sclerotinia is present and if a fungicide can be of benefit. In this video from the 2015 Crop Diagnostic School, Anastasia Kubinec of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD), talks about the risk factors for the fungal disease and offers tips for canola
Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 11
Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 11

Conditions as of July 13, 2015

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Hot and humid weather conditions resulted in rapid crop growth across most of Manitoba. Generally, condition of most crop types is rated as good, although variability is noted across the province. Majority of acres and crop types have entered the flowering and grain fill stages of development. Although many areas did receive much needed rainfall,
This filed of canola is at the 50 per cent bloom stage. The optimum time to apply a fungicide to protect canola from sclerotinia is at 20 to 30 per cent bloom, but it can be applied up to 50 per cent bloom. photo lionel kaskiw, mafrd
Crops, Oilseeds

Tools to assess sclerotinia risk in canola

The risk was high last week, but it might not be this week

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The sclerotinia risk was high in most of Manitoba last week, but it may have changed this week and the risk could be different a week from now, says Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) oilseed specialist Anastasia Kubinec. That’s why it pays farmers to assess the risk to their own canola crops before
A sclerotinia-infected canola stem. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Crops, Oilseeds

Sclerotinia risk high, but does it pay to spray?

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Provincial agriculture officials are warning Manitoba farmers that the sclerotinia risk in canola is high in many areas of the province — but farms may want to do a cost-benefit analysis before treating if their crop is already compromised by excess moisture. [Related story] If using a fungicide to protect the crop, target application for

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