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High disease risk sees many Manitoba canola growers spraying fungicide
A wet spring creates canola fields full of sclerotinia as flowering blooms

Integrated Pest Management gaining credibility
More and more growers are beginning to embrace the IPM approach to insect control, and the system is beginning to bear fruit

Crop pest scouts may gain from ‘app’lied knowledge
Insect ID is a challenge — but Prairie entomologists say there will soon be an app for that, and a whole lot more

Farmland for rent
Too often it seems you don’t hear land is up for rent until you learn someone is already renting it

High-tech seeding
New equipment options promise growers more and better control over this critical field operation

The fine balance of controlling crop diseases
It's a classic example of where short-term decisions can mean long-term problems

The long-term battle of fighting crop diseases
Fighting crop disease isn’t a single-season job — you’ve got to be in it for the long haul and protect and maintain the capacity to do the work

North of Superior, in ‘livestock country’
A northern Ontario mill town with a proud agricultural past and lots of essentially free land isn’t quite ready to call it quits yet

Canada’s agricultural research deficit
Public ag research in Canada gets cut again and again, all while proof grows that science is needed more than ever

Wheat class changes see the end of KVD
Kernel visual distinguishability (KVD) ended on paper in 2008, but new changes to wheat classes mean it will also end in practice