Think sclerotinia won’t show up just because it’s been dry? Last year proved that even after a string of droughts, one wet window is all this sneaky disease needs to make a comeback. After several years of drought, many Prairie canola growers were caught off guard by sclerotinia in 2024.“Last year… was the first year… Read More
Category: Diseases
It’s good news, for now, when it comes to stripe rust heading into Western Canada’s 2025 growing season, according to Dr. Kelly Turkington, plant pathologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and long-time contributor to the Prairie Crop Disease Monitoring Network. Compared to 2024, stripe rust and leaf rust issues in the U.S. are showing… Read More
Other Episodes: Corn School: Nitrogen placement in strip till for safety and yieldCorn School: Sidedress N strategies for cool conditionsCorn School: Volunteer corn management in the age of resistanceCorn School: Spring strategies and the power of fall weed controlCorn School: Top 5 calls for planter helpCorn School: Setting the planter for uniform emergenceCorn School: A… Read More
Think verticillium stripe is just a Manitoba problem? Think again. This increasingly common disease is spreading west, and by the time you spot symptoms, the damage is often done.In this episode of the RealAgriculture’s Canola School, Jeanette Gaultier, technical service specialist with BASF, discusses where verticillium is showing up and what can be done to… Read More
Other Episodes: Wheat School: Why salty soils give kochia the upper handWheat School: Leveraging later seeding for better stand and weed controlWheat School: Spring decisions for winter wheat successWheat School: Burn-off decisions, residual products, and hitting weeds while they’re littleWheat School: Drones deliver early-season sulphur for winter wheatWheat School: Look back to go forward on… Read More
The dreaded aphanomyces has been found in the fields… does that mean it’s time to quit growing pulses?Robyne Davidson, pulse and special crops research scientist with Lakeland College, says not necessarily, as she speaks with RealAgriculture’s Amber Bell about aphanomyces host and non-host crops in this episode of Pulse School.Aphanomyces thrives in wet soil conditions… Read More
While every bag of certified canola seed in Canada comes with a base seed treatment, what exactly does that protection include — and is there value in going beyond the basics?The answers to these questions are ones that Anique Josuttes, technical marketing specialist with BASF, seeks to explore in this episode of RealAgriculture’s Canola School.Josuttes… Read More
Vive Crop Protection has received expanded Canadian registration for AZteroid FC 390. Canadian potato growers first gained access to fungicide in 2024 to fight rhizoctonia and black scurf. The updated registration now allows sugar beet and radish growers to add the fungicide to their disease control toolboxes. Vive chief technology officer Dr. Doug Baumann says… Read More
Tar spot was first confirmed in Ontario at Ridgetown in the southwest corner of the province in 2020. Since then, the corn leaf disease has spread across Ontario, pushing east past Toronto and into Quebec.Many Ontario farmers experienced the yield robber in their fields for the first time in 2024 and the disease is likely… Read More
New Holland is billing its new sprayer automation offering as the most versatile and productive ‘sense and act’ technology on the market. Both New Holland and Case IH unveiled their versions of the live variable rate and selective spray application technology at the Commodity Classic in Denver, Colorado. In this report, New Holland director of… Read More