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Syngenta Canada has announced the registration of Moddus, a new plant growth regulator (PGR) that helps to mitigate lodging risk in wheat, barley and oats. It will be available for the 2021 growing season.
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The OMAFRA Field Crop Team has published their 2020 dry bean season summary. The report gives a breakdown of acreage changes, disease and insect issues, and harvest and yield in Ontario.
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Discussions focused on the future of Business Risk Management programs, balance in the retail-supplier relationship, and how to improve AgriStability, including removing the Reference Margin Limits.
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Canada has a very large population of weeds resistant to one or more herbicides. The good news is, pre-seed tank mixing for multiple modes of action can both protect your yield and help with ongoing weed resistance management on your farm. Spraying early is best practice because once your crop is established, it is much harder for weeds to gain a foothold, and the yield benefit of a solid pre-season spray program averages more than two bushels per acre. For more on your tank mix options, visit mixitup.ca
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Can crops gossip? Research on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows some plants communicate through mycorrhizas. Monika Gorzelak, a soil fertility specialist with AAFC in Lethbridge, Alta., has found mycorrhizas can link two plants together. For example, when aphids attack one fababean plant, it tells the other plants to increase defense mechanisms through the mycorrhizae network.
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In this series, catch highlights from interviews done with the Influential Women in Canadian Agriculture (IWCA) finalists. Karen Schwean-Lardner is an associate professor of poultry science at the University of Saskatchewan. She discusses risk-taking, the evolving role of women in agriculture, and how she used an early naysayer as motivation and became one of the world’s leading poultry scientists.
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