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OMAFRA: Temperature fluctuations and frost mitigation strategies

After a stretch of hot weather, temperatures are dropping, making it important to review critical temperatures, frost mitigation strategies and frost damage assessments.

Governments fund Ontario agri-food market expansion

The Grow Ontario Market Initiative is a new, cost-share initiative that will help food and beverage processors, farm businesses and agri-food sector organizations reach new markets.

U of G research: Soil moisture affects methane emissions

New research connects the amount of methane released from soil or locked in the ground with how wet the earth is. Basically, the wetter the soil, the higher the methane emissions.

 
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Weathering the weather in Atlantic Canada

One challenge the agriculture industry faces with climate change is the increase in frequency and severity of storms and changes in precipitation regimes. In the Atlantic region, spring and fall have been getting wetter and summer has been getting drier. It is increasingly difficult to manage water on-farm, and many producers are becoming more reliant on irrigation and artificial drainage. » Read More...
 
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AAFC: Combatting striped and spotted cucumber beetles

Striped and spotted cucumber beetles – named for their voracious eating of cucurbit crops – overwinter as adults in the hedgerows around fields and move into the field in late spring/early summer, making them hard to get rid of them. AAFC’s Suzanne Blatt began researching a more sustainable method to keep crops safe from these beetles in collaboration with Perennia in 2020. » Read More...
 
 
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Diseases of Field Crops and their Management , 1st Edition

The book entitled Diseases of Field Crops and their Management provides most recent information about major diseases of cultivation field crops, their symptoms, pathogen characters, epidemiology, and management. In order to make the book all in one, the importance of major diseases has also been dealt with in brief.

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