Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba Agriculture has posted its weekly Insect and Disease Update. Highlights: • Grasshoppers continue to be the biggest insect concern in many area. Some general questions on grasshoppers are discussed. •Reports have been coming in of soybeans with a range of symptoms that may be attributable to root rots. • Counts of moths of bertha […] Read more
Manitoba Insect and Disease Update – hoppers and root rot
Goss’s wilt reported in Manitoba corn
Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives has released the final regular weekly insect and disease update for the season. The full report is available here. Topics include • Preparing bins and equipment for harvest• Collection of obsolete or unwanted pesticides• Grasshopper survey• Recent Insect and plant pathogen activity• Crop stages and insect feeding• Goss’s […] Read more
Manitoba crop report – grain would still be welcome
Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba Agriculture has issued its weekly crop report, crop production update and crop weather report for July 23. Full text of each is available alongside. Highlights • Harvesting of the earliest seeded spring wheat and barley fields has started and preliminary yields are average to above average. Swathing of canola and oat crops continue across […] Read more
Manitoba crops – some farmers swathing, others could use rain
Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba Agriculture has issued its weekly crop report, crop production update and crop weather report for July 23. Full text of each is available alongside. Summary • Winter wheat harvest continues in Manitoba with favourable weather conditions. Yields are ranging from 50 to 100 bushels per acre with good test weights, low levels of fusarium-damaged […] Read more
Manitoba crop report: good start, heat needed
Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba Agriculture has issued its weekly crop report, production update and weather report. Full documents are attached alongside. Highlights •Seeding is essentially complete in Manitoba for the 2012 season. • Majority of crops are either at or ahead of their normal stages of development for this time of year due to an earlier than normal […] Read more
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