The Agronomists: Late-season disease assessments with Johanna Lindeboom & Doug Moisey

Pre-harvest is an excellent time to scout soybean and canola for various disease levels and to assess how the season has gone. There’s also plenty to be learned at harvest and even after harvest, depending on what you’re l...

The top canola diseases of 2023

It has happened only three times in the last seven or eight years of surveying canola fields for infections. Manitoba Agriculture plant pathologist David Kaminski went into a field to gather data for the 2023 Canola Diseas...

Pest alert – Bean leaf beetle in IP & seed soybeans

Deb Campbell (Agronomy Advantage) has notified that there are high levels of bean leaf beetle (BLB) and pod feeding in IP and seed soybeans in Wellington, Grey and Simcoe counties. Fields in other counties could also be at...

Canola School: The ins & outs of verticillium stripe

VIDEO: What’s ‘bugging’ Manitoba growers this year?

If you’re a grower, you’ve likely got pest insects at some level and hopefully at a minimum. As John Gavloski, extension entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture, pointed out at the Crop Diagnostic School last month in Carma...

Mid-summer conditions raise alerts about late blight in potatoes

Tar spot pressure low in Ontario so far

In early July, Albert Tenuta confirmed low incidences of tar spot in Elgin, Chatham-Kent and Essex counties. Tenuta, a field crop extension plant pathologist with the Ontario agriculture department, noted the initial posit...

Wheat School: Lygus bug... in wheat?!

For this episode of the Wheat School, Kelvin Heppner asks entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture Dr. John Gavloski if lygus bug is an economically important pest of wheat, and if the early lygus detection is a harbinger of...

Soybean School: Identifying seedling diseases

Soybeans don’t like wet feet, and when rain is plentiful in June and July, saturated soils typically lead to an increase in fungal seedling diseases. Four of the most common culprits are pythium and phytophthora root rots ...