July 25, 2024

Edible Bean School: Fungicide strategies for white mould control

The 2024 growing season has been a wet one for much of the edible bean growing region, and that means growers need to get out and scout as crops start to flower in a high-disease risk growing environment. On this episode o...

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July 23, 2024

Wheat School: Target the head with fungicide for FHB suppression

For this episode of the Wheat School, Amber Bell is in the field with Dr. Kelly Turkington, plant pathologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to talk about fungicide management of fusarium head blight.

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July 18, 2024

Cabbage seedpod weevil pushes west

The cool, damp spring the Prairies are experiencing could lead to a bad year for cabbage seedpod weevils, which is bad news for canola growers. Find out more on its push west from this Western Producer article.

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July 18, 2024

Corn pests to watch for over the next month

Tracey Baute, an entomologist with OMAFRA highlights the corn pests that you should keep an eye out for over the next month in this Field Crop News article. Highlighted are corn rootworm, western bean cutworm, and European...

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July 10, 2024

Wheat School: Fusarium head blight 101 — field history & weather combine to create risk

Fusarium head blight grows on old, infected crop residues, which is the primary source of this disease. Weather conditions have also been ideal for disease development. While these are the ideal conditions for the pathogen...

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July 10, 2024

Pulse School: Weed stage drives in-crop herbicide timing

Different pulse crop types need a different weed-free window to reach maximum yield potential. To unpack the various scenarios and considerations of pulse crop weed management, RealAgriculture’s Amber Bell is joined by Mik...

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July 10, 2024

Pulse School: Pulling the fungicide trigger on ascochyta (mycosphaerella blight)

In this Pulse School video, filmed at the 2024 Manitoba Crop Diagnostic School, Dennis Lange, pulse and soybean specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, demonstrates how to use a decision worksheet published by Manitoba Pulse...

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July 04, 2024

Wet conditions stoke sclerotinia fears

Manitoba canola producers are hoping this season will echo last year’s scarcity of sclerotinia, but recent wet conditions may have laid groundwork for the fungus to return. Producers looking to win the fight against sclero...

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June 28, 2024

Wheat School: Considering nymph counts in grasshopper control thresholds

As discussed in this Wheat School episode with James Tansey, provincial entomologist with Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, there are 85 species of grasshoppers with only four of them being pests of concern in cereal c...

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June 28, 2024

Wheat School: Be on alert for stripe rust

In this Wheat School, Dr. Kelly Turkington, plant pathologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, says that stripe rust spores can travel from the Pacific Northwest to southern Alberta in just half a day. Spores can tra...

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June 28, 2024

Canola School: Maximizing yields with early season scouting

There are two main things that a producer is looking for when early season scouting: one is to measure the success of the seeding operation, including how many plants are coming out of the ground versus how many were seede...

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June 28, 2024

Wheat School: Timing harvest for fusarium-infected winter wheat

On this episode of RealAgriculture Wheat School, Peter Johnson looks at the Fusarium Head Blight Index, a new tool that growers can take to the field to determine which fields are at the highest risk for yield loss and deo...

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June 24, 2024

Pulse School: Pea leaf weevil damage happens below ground

In this Pulse School episode, Jay Byer, manager and agronomist with Gateway Research Organization, explains how to scout for the weevil, what damage the pest can do, and what farmers can do about managing the pest.

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