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Tests showed tillage took out 69 per cent of the weeds, but the rate was the same for both high and low densities.

Many ‘little hammers’ best for organic weed control, says Maine expert

If tillage kill rate averages only 69 per cent,  that still leaves plenty for next year

By Daniel Winters February 10, 2014

Controlling weeds in organic systems is a bit like balancing your chequebook, except that the goal is to get the (seed) bank account as low as possible. “When managing annual weeds, the important thing is the seed bank,” said Eric Gallandt, a weed ecologist in the latest webinar of this spring’s Western Canadian Organic Webinar

This photo taken at the Saskatoon CanoLab shows resistant kochia in the front tray and susceptible in the rear.

Crops, Oilseeds

WGRF funding hunt for glyphosate-resistant kochia in southern Manitoba

By Allan Dawson May 14, 2013

A search for glyphosate-resistant kochia in Manitoba will be done this fall thanks to $17,000 in funding from the Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF). WGRF executive director Garth Patterson confirmed the funding in an interview May 6. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Hugh Beckie, a world leader in herbicide-resistant weed surveys, will work with officials from

Crops, News, Oilseeds

A million acres of glyphosate-resistant weeds in Canada?

By Allan Dawson May 7, 2013

More than one million acres of Canadian farmland have glyphosate-resistant weeds growing on them, including 43,000 in Manitoba, according to an online survey of 2,028 farmers conducted by Stratus Agri-Marketing Inc. based in Guelph, Ont. The shockingly high Canadian numbers met with skepticism from some experts who suggest farmers might be mistaking hard-to-kill weeds with

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Off-label glyphosate applications can be costly

By Allan Dawson April 18, 2013

Farmers are increasingly going “off label” applying higher rates of glyphosate to their Roundup Ready canola at a later crop stage than recommended, a survey commissioned by Monsanto Canada reveals. As a result farmers are losing three bushels an acre, Monsanto Canada said in a recent new release citing its own research. “The symptoms of

Cereals, Crops

Aerial registrations for broadleaf weed control approved

March 25, 2013

Dow AgroSciences has received aerial use registrations for Prestige XC, Attain XC and OcTTain XL a move the company says will offer more options to customers needing broadleaf weed control in regions with spring conditions that are too wet as well as those needing to cover a large number of cereal acres quickly. “We have

Cereals, Crops

Two new branded off-patent products hit market

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 16, 2013

MANA Canada has introduced two new off-patent co-pack products that are analogues of popular products already available in Western Canada. The new Topline herbicide is a cereal product that includes the active ingredients florasulam and MCPA ester, the same active ingredients as Frontline. It’s registered for use on wheat, oat and barley. In a conference

Crops, News

New herbicide option from MANA Canada

By Allan Dawson February 28, 2013

Priority’s active ingredient is florasulam, a Group 2 herbicide, designed to be tank mixed with the farmer’s choice of glyphosate

Western Canadian farmers will have another pre-seed, chemfallow and post-harvest weed control option starting this spring by tank mixing MANA Canada’s Priority herbicide with glyphosate. Florasulam, an off-patent Group 2 weed killer, is Priority’s active ingredient, which when tank mixed with glyphosate will have the same active ingredients as PrePass, Andrew Mann, MANA Canada’s general

News, Opinion

A penny a plant?

By Laura Rance-Unger January 30, 2013

Back in the days when being a farm kid spelled work and a penny was still worth five Mojos at the local store, Grandpa had us all out there one hot, July afternoon hand roguing his seed oats for a penny a plant. If some agronomists are correct, it’s looking like farm kids of the

News

Weeding out resistant weeds the old-fashioned way

By Lorraine Stevenson January 30, 2013

If hand roguing a commercial farm field in Manitoba seems like an outlandish investment of your time, you might reconsider after seeing Ingrid Kristjanson’s photos from North Dakota. Judging from the astonished whistles by some in the St. Jean Farm Days audience earlier this month, the farmers in attendance were inspired, to say the least,

Crops, News

Practise zero tolerance to avoid resistant weeds

By Angela Lovell January 17, 2013

If Canadian farmers want to avoid the fate of their U.S. counterparts struggling with glyphosate-resistant weeds such as kochia, waterhemp, and common and giant ragweed, then they’d better practise zero tolerance, says an American weed scientist. “That means no survival rate and no weed seed production,” researcher Jeff Stachler told attendees at the Manitoba Agronomists

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B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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