Effort Underway To Save Endangered Seeds

Farmers and plant breeders around the globe are planting thousands of endangered seeds as part of a bid to save 100,000 varieties of food crops from extinction. In many cases, only a handful of seeds remain from rare varieties of barley, rice and wheat whose history can be traced back to the Neolithic era, said

Sanitation key to keeping clubroot out of Manitoba

The best way to keep clubroot from damaging canola yields is to do whatever it takes to keep it out of your fields, Manitoba Agriculture’s plant pathologist told farmers attending Manitoba Ag Days recently. “For clubroot to occur, the pathogen needs to be present in the field,” Philip Northover said. That seems like stating the


Research wants ragweed seed

An Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researcher is looking for seed samples of common ragweed as part of a study on the influence of genetic and environmental variations. Manon Bélanger wants seed from a wide geographic distribution and as well as different habitats. To contribute to her research follow these instructions: On a bright sunny day,