Reading Time: 4 minutes Chemical controls have reached a point where “more of the same” may not work, so the search is on for new or alternative methods. If you want to control wireworms, one of those methods might be buckwheat. It’s an approach discovered by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researchers on Prince Edward Island, where Christine Noronha and […] Read more
Cereal crop characteristics seen as another biofumigation prospect
Buckwheat has been shown to suppress wireworm, and might also be a marketable crop
Can buckwheat make a long, slow comeback?
Manitoba acres are still down, but buyers hope to contract western Canadian growers
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s not as easy as it used to be to find buckwheat honey in Manitoba. The province was once the buckwheat capital of Canada, with as many as 135,000 acres in 1979, but the area in recent years has been steady around only 5,000 acres. Although there’s demand for buckwheat grown in Western Canada, industry […] Read more
How about a ‘nutty’ alternative crop?
Buckwheat is garnering attention as much more than ‘just’ a cover crop
Reading Time: 5 minutes Some growers opt for their region’s top crops. It only makes sense, after all, to reduce your risks by effectively pooling everyone’s combined experience. Others, though, look for ways to be different. They want to boost their margins, and they feel they need to be entrepreneurial if they’re going to move the yardsticks. For those […] Read more
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