“Hug a Farmer, he feeds you three times a day” …is the phrase on a promotional pin, that I found cleaning my office, for my family’s old fertilizer and chemical dealership. I also recently saw this phrase in a Toronto newspaper. This statement brings up two trains of thought for me, one that instills a… Read More
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When it comes to disease problems in wheat, the conditions have been pretty favourable across most of the prairies. With the exception of the past week or so, temperatures have been below average and moisture has been above average across the west. Those factors elevate the risk of fungal disease, making scouting and control extremely… Read More
Wet conditions over the past few years have brought the importance of fungicide back on to the producers radar. Those conditions are the final piece of the puzzle diseases like sclerotinia need to get established and cause real damage to canola. The devastating results of fungal diseases are helping producers to realize the importance of… Read More