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Pea aphids overwhelming pulses
Pea aphids are commonly found in many pulse and legume crops, but are occurring at economically damaging levels more frequently in the last few years. In 2019, the sap-sucking insect devastated lentil...
View ArticleSpray utility modifier Stick N Spray comes to Canada
Adjuvants Plus, Inc. has introduced their latest product to the Canadian agriculture market: Stick N Stay, from U.S.-based Attune Agriculture, is a spray utility modifier scientifically formulated to...
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Yellow foxtail a weed to watch
Yellow foxtail is the underdog of Manitoba weeds. In the province’s 2002 provincial weed survey, yellow foxtail ranked 30th in relative abundance. By the last survey in 2016, it had jumped to sixth...
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Inputs: Insect pest management with Tyler Wist and John Gavloski
Welcome to the fourth episode in our series providing exclusive coverage of the Plant Health Summit, a conference put on by Top Crop Manager at the end of February. In this series, you can expect to...
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Inputs: Fungicides and spray technologies with Tom Wolf
Welcome to the seventh and final episode in our series providing exclusive coverage of the Plant Health Summit, a conference put on by Top Crop Manager at the end of February. In this series, you can...
View ArticleLemken to discontinue field sprayer production
Lemken, a German-based agriculture technology company, has announced that they will discontinue production of their conventional field sprayers at the end of 2020. Anthony van der Ley, Lemken CEO,...
View ArticleN-fixing bacteria for corn now registered in Canada
Following six years of field research and successful farm trials in Canada and the U.S., Envita is now approved for use by the Candian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and is commercially available to...
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Maximizing fungicide use
First of all, herbicide spraying is easy. There are a large number of modes of action available. Weeds are targeted in wide open spaces with no canopy covering the weed. On the other hand, spraying...
View ArticleKeep an eye out for white mould in Ontario’s dry bean crops
Dry beans are either approaching flowering or have already started flowering across Ontario. White mould is an important disease of dry beans in Ontario, and in-crop management of white mould occurs...
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Suppressing sclerotinia under irrigation
Managing sclerotinia disease on irrigated land is difficult, as over 50 per cent of the crops grown are usually hosts for the disease. Additionally, the favourable disease environment under irrigation...
View ArticleInnovative flea beetle control
“There was a fair amount of foliar spraying and some re-seeding,” Gavloski says. “Flea beetles seem to have overwintered quite well and were out in high numbers, plus the canola was stressed due to dry...
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Refining cabbage seedpod weevil thresholds
This was later revised to three to four per sweep, and then modified again to 20 weevils per 10 sweeps (two per sweep). Now, new research and a change in philosophy on economic thresholds have the...
View ArticleNew BASF herbicide for lentils, peas, soybeans and corn
Heat Complete’s two modes of action – Group 14 and Group 15 – provide broad-spectrum burndown of tough weeds, including cleavers, volunteer canola, kochia and wild buckwheat, as well as extended...
View ArticleIntensive wheat management
There is the opportunity to intensify rotations that may provide higher yields, improve protein, or offset the impacts of diseases such as Fusarium head blight (FHB) with higher yielding varieties....
View ArticleElevore herbicide now registered for Canada fleabane control
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently approved the registration of Elevore herbicide, a new tool that provides consistent, pre-plant burndown control of glyphosate-resistant Canada...
View ArticleAlberta insect forecast and survey maps now available
Scott Meers, insect management specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, explains what the pest forecast maps and surveys indicate. Overall Meera indicates that the wheat midge threat has...
View ArticleHealth Canada stands by glyphosate safety decision after reviewing objections
The re-evaluation decision from 2017 stated that “glyphosate does not present unacceptable risks to human health or the environment when used according to the revised product label directions,” and...
View ArticleSyngenta receives registration for new herbicide for Roundup Ready 2 Xtend...
Tavium is a pre-mix of dicamba (Group 4) and s-metolachlor (Group 15), the active ingredient in Dual II Magnum herbicide. It can be applied pre‑plant or pre‑emergence in Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans...
View ArticleBASF launches insecticide for use in Canadian soybeans and potatoes
BASF launches its Sefina insecticide for use on soybean and potato crops in 2019 to protect against aphid pests. Sefina utilizes a unique mode of action, Group 9D active ingredient Inscalis, to quickly...
View ArticleNufarm’s GoldWing herbicide label expands to include lentils, chickpeas and...
Growers in Western Canada now have more options when choosing early season weed control with PMRA’s recent approval of Crop Group 6C on the GoldWing label. Lentils, chickpeas, fababeans, and a range of...
View ArticleSeeding & Spraying College – CANCELLED
This all-day practical educational event is a follow-up to the popular 2019 Combine College. Attendees choose from 12 different expert-led breakout sessions, network in the Aftermarket & Equipment...
View ArticleOSCIA celebrates Lambton County farmer’s innovation
Mark Lumley of Fairwind Farms in Sarnia, Ont., received the first-ever Don Hill Legacy Award at the 2020 Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association (OSCIA) annual meeting in London, Ont., for his...
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Twospotted spider mites suck in soybeans
How can a tiny mite about 0.4 millimetres long cause economic losses in soybean? They simply suck the life out of the plant, cell by cell. The twospotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) feeds on...
View ArticleNitrogen application innovation nets 2021 OSCIA legacy award
David and Roger Buurma’s patience and ingenuity in perfecting a low-cost solution for side-dressing nitrogen in corn has won them the 2021 Don Hill Legacy Award. The Lambton County grain farmers have...
View ArticleFoliar fungicide not recommended for blackleg-resistant canola
With increased blackleg (Leptosphaeria maculans) incidence and shorter crop rotations in many parts of the Canadian Prairies, there was a growing interest in foliar fungicide treatment to reduced...
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Herbicide resistance in Australia
Canada and Australia rank third and second globally when it comes to herbicide resistant weed cases. Hugh Beckie, director of the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI) and professor of weed...
View ArticleAAFC funding development of pest and disease spray analytics platform
On Feb. 16, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau announced up to $875,000 to Ukko Agro Inc. to support the development of an analytics platform to aid in better controlling...
View ArticleOMAFRA: Dealing with pests in winter canola
Flowering has begun in many winter canola fields, and Meghan Moran, canola and edible bean specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), has recently posted two...
View ArticleMake the most of your soybean crop with early application
There are three key steps to take in the field to ensure you maximize your soybean yield. With the Roundup Ready® Xtend Crop System, farmers can change the way their soybeans grow with residual weed...
View ArticleOMAFRA: Determining if (and when) to spray dry beans for WBC
Western bean cutworm (WBC) can significantly reduce the quality and yield of your dry bean crop. To assist in determining whether or not to spray dry bean crops for WBC (and when), Tracey Baute, field...
View ArticleOMAFRA tank mixing update: Implications for pest control products
Tank mixing, a practice commonly performed by growers across the agricultural spectrum, is an important practice used to reduce the number of sprayer passes per season, prevent resistance development,...
View ArticleSprayers101: Drone spraying in Canadian agriculture
In Canada, the use of drones for pesticide application, otherwise known as remote piloted aerial systems (RPAS), is regulated by two federal departments: Transport Canada establishes regulations for...
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