Herbicide Import Causes Maze Of Issues

Unfortunately, most growers are bringing in Pursuit for what is actually an unregistered use. Farmers are importing a popular herbicide called Pursuit from the United States and saving a pile of money. That’s good news for the producers involved, but there are a lot of unfortunate consequences. Pursuit is a long-standing product from the crop

Crop Report – for May. 13, 2010

SOUTHWEST: Rainfall over the past week kept producers out of the field till later in the week; rainfall amounts varied throughout the region. Cool temperatures over the weekend brought frost to most areas, but no frost damage was reported. The overall moisture situation is rated as good. The amount of crop seeded varies throughout the


Change Constant With Weeds Legislation

Change has been a constant since the Noxious Weeds Act was first introduced in 1870, according to MWSA president John Johnston. The original act was mainly a recognition that the spread of some weeds needed to be controlled. It was rewritten in 1883 to transfer responsibility for controlling invasive and troublesome plants to landowners, and

Weed Supervisors Discuss Wish List

“If the act is opened up now, what will it look like in the end? There are a number of special interest groups out there that will insist upon having their issues addressed in the act.” – JOHN JOHNSTON Proposed changes to the Noxious Weeds Act, including hikes in special levies and notices to destroy,


Everest GBX Offers One-Pass Weed Control

Everest GBX, when combined with the grower’s choice of phenoxy, controls more weeds better than any other single product on the market today, Arysta LifeScience says in a release. Weeds like buckwheat, cleavers and kochia along with other yield robbers like flushing wild oats and green foxtail can be silenced in one pass. “The advantage

Reglone Versus Glyphosate

They’ve (Reglone and glyphosate) been around for many years. They work totally differently, but as I say confusion still reigns.” – ED THIESSEN Reglone (diquat) and glyphosate are similar, but different and farmers need to know the difference to get the best results from each, says Ed Thiessen of Syngenta Canada. Both are non-selective herbicides


Syngenta, Arysta Swap Weed Killer Licences

Syngenta Crop Protection and Arysta LifeScience have signed licensing deals to make new herbicides using one of each other’s chemistries. Syngenta will use flucarbazone chemistry, the active ingredient in Arysta’s Group 2 herbicide Everest, to produce Sierra and Pace herbicides. Sierra will be a Group 2 graminicide based on flucarbazone, which Syngenta said provides “an

Avoid This Tank Mix

Mixing the herbicides Frontline XL and Puma Super are a bad idea, even if the label says it is OK, a MAFRI official says. “Neither Bayer nor Dow supports the tank mix because of antagonism, especially when conditions are less than perfect,” says John MacGregor, farm production advisor for Steinbach. MacGregor said some Frontline packaging


Crop Report – for Jun. 18, 2009

SOUTHWEST REGION Seeding is 95 per cent complete in the region with only some green feed crops to be sown. Several fields of canola have been reseeded due to frost and flea beetle pressure. Cereal crops are in the four-leaf to tillering stage. Canola is in the two-to three-leaf stage with slow growth being reported.

Crops Hit By June 6 Frost

“In one field the odd plant was dead and the next quarter over the field was completely dead.” – anastasia KuBinec Frost early June 6 caused another spring flood in Manitoba – of crop insurance claims. Temperatures dipped below zero in many regions during the wee hours of June 6. But the lowest temperatures were