Research out of North Dakota tracked red-winged blackbird behaviour during critical fall periods, which could help farmers in Manitoba develop effective strategies to protect harvests.
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U.S. blackbird research could help shield Manitoba sunflowers
Carbine gets green light against lygus bugs
Product gets emergency approval for use in confection sunflowers
Manitoba farmers have emergency approval to use Carbine against lygus bug infestations in confection sunflowers. The Manitoba Crop Alliance noted the allowance in a press release July 28. “The need for an emergency use registration was identified in the wake of the re-evaluation of lambda-cyhalothrin product use in Canada, which left a void in lygus bug control
Russia approves formula-based sunflower oil export tax
The Russian government has approved a formula-based export tax system for sunflower oil and a higher export tax for sunflower seeds, as part of a drive to combat domestic food price inflation. Russia has imposed several export taxes for grains and sunseeds, among other measures, since December in its battle to tame rising food prices
Ukraine 2020 sunflower harvest near end, seen falling
Ukraine’s 2020 sunflower seed harvest is seen falling sharply as farmers threshing 12.9 million tonnes of the commodity from 99 per cent area compared with 15.3 million tonnes harvested in 2019, the Economy Ministry’s data showed on Nov. 17. Ukraine is the world’s largest sunflower oil exporter. Analysts APK-Inform earlier on Tuesday said the 2020-21
Is Manitoba poised for a bumper sunflower harvest?
Sunflower industry observers say early signs are very good
Should early indications pan out, there could be a bumper crop of sunflowers in Manitoba in 2020, according to a Manitoba sunflower buyer. “The yields are very high,” said the buyer of the harvest so far. Manitoba Agriculture reported the first week of October that about three per cent of the crop was combined so
Lots of advantages to desiccating sunflowers
The key is timing and determining if the crop is good enough to justify the additional cost
Desiccating confection or oilseed sunflowers to speed up harvest can deliver profits and peace of mind, but timing is everything, says Anastasia Kubinec, Manitoba Agriculture’s manager of crop industry development. “There has been a move to more producers going to desiccating sunflowers because they do see the economic benefit to it,” Kubinec said during the
Sunflowers can be frustrating but profitable
Manitoba’s sunflower crop is holding its own but sclerotinia could still hit hard
Despite inclement weather and legions of lygus bugs, Manitoba’s sunflower crop is looking good this season — at least for now. “So far it’s OK, we’ll see about sclerotinia damage in the next while, I haven’t seen very much head rot yet, but we still have essentially six weeks to go for this crop,” said
Sunny harvest improves
Sunflower growers have been trying innovative blackbird-repelling techniques
It’s too soon to know for sure, but early indications are that Manitoba’s sunflower growers will harvest a higher-yielding crop than they have in recent years. “I think it will still be a strong year for yield and I think the quality will be better this year than last year too,” said Troy Turner, an
In Zambia, investing in farmers keeps kids in school
Families who see improved yields under conservation agriculture use the extra income to pay school fees
Juliette, the eldest daughter of Olipa Tembo and her husband Dickson Nkata, came home from school early one day. She was crying. The child, who would have been about eight at the time, had walked the four kilometres to the local school, only to have the teacher promptly send her home again. The family had
Invasion of the body snatchers
Southwestern Manitoba grasshoppers being preyed upon by parasitic red mites
This grasshopper munching on a sunflower in southwestern Manitoba is being devoured by parasitic red mites (Eutrombidium locustarum), says Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) entomologist John Gavloski. The mites feed on the blood (hemolymph) of grasshoppers. They also prey on grasshopper eggs. Each female mite can lay up to 4,000 eggs, providing mite
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