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Cereal leaf disease minimal in Alberta but be aware of blown-in stripe rust

By Jeff Melchior July 26, 2024

The province received variable precipitation this spring which had pathologists and producers expecting the arrival of members of the leaf spot complex. However, Kelly Turkington with the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lacombe Research and Development Centre said they may have been scorched by the July heat wave.

Yellow-orange coloured lesions of stripe rust can bee seen on the leaves of infected cereal plants. Photo: OMAFRA

Crops

Stripe rust in the wind

Recent weather conditions may have given Manitoba an aerial dose of stripe rust spores

By Miranda Leybourne June 29, 2024

Producers are urged to monitor their fields for stripe rust and other diseases and to ensure timely fungicide application after wind analysis showed stripe rust spores might have blown in during the last month.

Stripe rust in wheat. (Yue Jin photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Cereals, News

Kansas wheat tour finds above-average yield prospects but also disease

By Julie Ingwersen May 31, 2021

Reuters – Yield prospects for hard red winter wheat in central Kansas were above average, scouts on an annual crop tour found earlier this month, although yield-robbing diseases, primarily stripe rust, were prevalent in some areas, reflecting generally cool and wet conditions. Kansas is the top U.S. producer of winter wheat and was the second-largest

Crops, Local news

Insect levels seen low, stripe rust reported in winter wheat

Manitoba Insect & Disease Update for May 24

By Manitoba Agriculture May 26, 2017

Insect pest concerns are currently low overall. There have been some insecticide applications for cutworms in the Northwest, and for flea beetles in canola in the Central and Northwest Regions. Striped rust has been reported from a winter wheat field; no other plant pathogen activity has been reported. Stripe rust overwinters in winter wheat Stripe rust was

Overwintering stripe rust was found April 17 in a winter wheat field near Austin by agronomist Amber Knaggs of Munro Farm Supplies. Manitoba Agriculture plant pathologist Holly Derksen says farmers with infected fields should keep scouting and consider applying a fungicide at weed spraying time if the disease is still present in fields of susceptible varieties.

Cereals, Local news

Manitoba’s first case of stripe rust near Austin overwintered

It was the only reported case as of April 19 says Manitoba Agriculture plant pathologist Holly Derksen

By Allan Dawson April 19, 2017

The first case of stripe rust this growing season was found in a Manitoba winter wheat field near Austin April 17, but the fungal disease was detected in the same crop last fall. “It definitely overwintered,” Manitoba Agriculture plant pathologist Holly Derksen said during CropTalk Westman webinar April 19. “It’s too early to have blown

Stripe rust overwintered further north than usual going into the 2016 growing season, Cargill’s Linda Freitag said at SWAC. (OMAFRA photo)

Crops, Weather

Greig: Lessons learned from Ontario crops’ pest pressures

By GFM Network News, John Greig January 9, 2017

The warmer winter and subsequent drought defined the 2016 cropping season in Ontario, resulting in more disease and insect pressures and then challenges managing them. Three agronomists gave an overview of the 2016 cropping season at the SouthWest Agricultural Conference in Ridgetown, outlining challenges and wins for the year. Leanne Freitag, Cargill’s manager of agronomy

Crops, Local news

Time to scout for lygus bugs in canola and sunflower crops

Manitoba Insect and Disease summary for August 3

By Manitoba Agriculture August 5, 2016

Summary Insects: Insects of highest importance to scout for currently are Lygus bugs in canola and sunflowers, and banded sunflower moths in sunflowers. Only trace levels of soybean aphids have been found so far. Although a couple of traps monitoring adults of bertha armyworm had moderate counts in the Northwest, and a few traps had counts in the uncertain risk

A sclerotinia-infected canola stem. Eastern Prairie crops are expected to face added disease pressure. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Crops, Weather

Rain increases disease pressures on eastern Prairies

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News June 28, 2016

CNS Canada — The recent batch of wet weather across parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been a welcome relief to some fields that were suffering from excess dryness. However, soggy conditions have also enabled certain disease pressures to rear their ugly head, according to some government specialists. “Root rot is showing up in peas

Stripe rust can cause significant yield losses for wheat growers. (Yue Jin photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Weather

Pearce: Stripe rust in winter wheat is Ontario’s biggest threat

By GFM Network News May 30, 2016

Normally, stripe rust in winter wheat isn’t a huge problem for growers in Eastern Canada, and particularly in Ontario — at least, not at this stage of the growing season — but the 2016 growing season isn’t shaping up to be “normal” either. For now, the immediate challenge before growers is to get out and

Cereals, Crops, Weather

Manitoba rust diseases dissipate as fusarium appears

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News July 16, 2015

CNS Canada –– The spread of leaf and stripe rust in southern Manitoba appears to be over. The diseases, which generally target cereal crops, were thought to have blown up from the northern U.S. in late spring. Fields near Carman and Killarney both tested positive for rust in winter and spring wheat. Recent warm weather,

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Cereal leaf disease minimal in Alberta but be aware of blown-in stripe rust

Stripe rust in the wind

Kansas wheat tour finds above-average yield prospects but also disease

Insect levels seen low, stripe rust reported in winter wheat

Manitoba’s first case of stripe rust near Austin overwintered

Greig: Lessons learned from Ontario crops’ pest pressures

Time to scout for lygus bugs in canola and sunflower crops

Rain increases disease pressures on eastern Prairies

Pearce: Stripe rust in winter wheat is Ontario’s biggest threat

Manitoba rust diseases dissipate as fusarium appears

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