April 28, 2024

Canola School: When clubroot does & doesn't thrive (don't get caught with your plants down)

For Manitoba, what could have been a disaster of epic proportions has instead been a slow expansion of clubroot over the last twenty years. It’s still a disease of serious concern, but why hasn’t it spread faster or caused...

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April 28, 2024

Canola School: Take a stand against flea beetles in a(nother) dry year

In dry conditions, too much seed-placed fertilizer can hurt the canola plant stand and help flea beetles get the upper hand, explains Keith Gabert, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, joining RealAgricul...

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April 28, 2024

Soybean School: The trouble with tillage for weed control

Tillage can play an important role in weed control but integrating additional tools always makes for a better strategy. On this episode of RealAgriculture Soybean School, Rob Miller illustrates this point when he takes a c...

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April 22, 2024

Soybean School: Controlling weeds after a warm winter

On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Soybean School, host Bernard Tobin heads to the field with agronomist Rob Miller to talk spring weed control and what growers should be looking for as they scout fields.

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April 18, 2024

Glyphosate resistant lamb's-quarters confirmed in QC

Glyphosate resistance has been confirmed in lamb’s-quarters in Quebec. The finding, which comes from the CÉROM grain research centre, is the first confirmation of glyphosate resistance in the annual weed anywhere in the wo...

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March 31, 2024

Herbicide resistant weeds creep north into Canada

Weeds know no borders, of course, so when weed trouble or a resistance issue surfaces on the northern U.S. Plains, there’s a decent chance of it turning up somewhere on Canadian cropland sooner or later. Three particularly...

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March 31, 2024

Spring ’hopper threat remains high

Spring may be a repeat of 2023, when grasshoppers emerged sooner than usual and caused havoc for farmers in the early growing season. A lot depends on weather, but if it is warm and dry in Saskatchewan in April and May, gr...

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March 31, 2024

Wheat School: Wicked wireworms need multi-year management

For this Wheat School episode, RealAgriculture is back with Shad Milligan, seedcare specialist with Syngenta Canada, to talk about not just why wireworm has resurfaced as a pest, but also how the seed treatment options for...

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March 31, 2024

Managing barley yellow dwarf virus in oats

Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYVD) effects a wide range of grass hosts including wheat, oats and barley with oats being considered the most susceptible crop. In some regions of the province, BYDV has been reported as having ...

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March 24, 2024

Canola School: Planning for flea beetles & grasshoppers, without lambda-cy... again

One of the most commonly-used tools for fighting insect pests will be missing from the toolbox in many situations on Canadian farms again in 2024. There’s been no change to the label for products that contain lambda-cyhalo...

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March 15, 2024

Native insect acquires new taste for soybeans

A tiny North American moth species that has been seen in Canada has been developing a new appetite for soybean plants on the U.S. Plains. The soybean tentiform leafminer has been seen in Manitoba creating leaf injuries on ...

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March 15, 2024

The Agronomists: The clubroot conundrum with Marissa Robitaille Balog & Stephen Stelkov

Clubroot is a persistent, destructive, soil-borne disease of canola that lurks in soil waiting to be carried by equipment, boots, wheels, or even wind to a new field. But there is more to managing the disease than just res...

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February 25, 2024

Old corn pest returns with new threat

Bt corn hybrids have been the story of success in transgenic innovation, a gold standard of biotech pest management, first with European corn borer (ECB) and then corn rootworm (CRW). Now comes a case from Truro, N.S., whe...

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