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Manitoba sunflower acreage set to drop

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CNS Canada — The closure of a sunflower processing plant in southern Alberta has Manitoba sunflower growers feeling uneasy this year. “Because of the plant closure there’s quite a bit of delay in delivery of the ’17 crop. So it’s discouraged quite a few guys from growing more (sunflowers),” said Ben Friesen, senior market manager
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Steady sunflower acreage expected

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CNS Canada — Manitoba’s sunflower market is holding steady for the time being, with acres likely unchanged on the year despite shifts in the processing sector. PepsiCo last week announced it will shut its Spitz sunflower seed processing plant at Bow Island in southeastern Alberta and shift its production to the U.S. Meanwhile, Manitoba has
Late-season verticillium in canola appears as black peppering beneath the flaking outer surface of the stem.
Crops, Local news

Fall field scouting can highlight diseases

Verticillium and Goss’s wilt are both easily spotted near or after harvest

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Field scouting doesn’t stop with the combine, but it does become more specific, according to Dr. Vikram Bisht, pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture. “Usually, to scout for soil-borne pathogens is not an easy thing because you have to do a lot of laboratory work, but if you have the pathogens which survive in the crop residue
A swarm of blackbirds takes flight.
Local news, Oilseeds

Keep ditches mowed to keep birds moving

Blackbird flocks will reach maximum size near mid-September

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If you want to save your sunflowers, you need to make sure the blackbirds don’t make them dinner. Lower acres this year have served to concentrate the blackbird flocks into smaller areas where they can do more damage, according to Daryl Rex, an agronomist with the National Sunflower Association of Canada. “I think it is
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Crops

Sunflowers down, but not out in Western Canada

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CNS Canada — Canadian sunflower plantings will be down in 2017, but perhaps not by as much as the official government estimate. Statistics Canada forecast the country’s sunflower area at only 50,000 acres in its planting intentions report. That would be down from 70,000 the previous year and the second-lowest acreage base of the past
The rise of the 777 sunflower rust race
Crops

The rise of the 777 sunflower rust race

If it seems like rust is becoming a bigger problem for Manitoba sunflower crops, that’s because it is. Researchers have identified a new virulent race of sunflower rust that made up nearly two-thirds of the rust cases in Manitoba during the 2016 growing season. Left unchecked, the disease deprives the plant of nutrients, and can
Good reasons to desiccate sunflowers
Crops, Oilseeds

Good reasons to desiccate sunflowers

Improved yield and quality and increased peace of mind are all part of the equation

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If a hard frost isn’t in the forecast, sunflower farmers might want to consider applying liquid frost — a.k.a., a desiccant. That’s the advice Manitoba Agriculture oilseed specialist Anastasia Kubinec gave during the Crop Talk Westman webinar Sept. 28. Kubinec, who also farms with her husband and father, knows of what she speaks. Their sunflowers
(Bruce Fritz photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Weather

Manitoba sunflowers ready for harvest

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CNS Canada — Most sunflower fields in southern Manitoba are ready for harvest, but the province first needs to see some drier weather. A handful of fields have seen some harvest activity already, “but the bulk is still to come,” said Ben Friesen, purchasing manager with Scoular Canada at Winkler, Man. “If the sun shines,
(Bruce Fritz photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Weather

Manitoba sunflowers take beating from storms

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CNS Canada –– Manitoba crops have suffered an array of problems due to unfavourable weather this year, and sunflowers are no exception. “(Sunflower) crops would be looking really good if it wasn’t for the storms that have been rolling through Manitoba over the last few weeks,” said Troy Turner, agronomist with the National Sunflower Association

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