Glyphosate-resistant kochia is still relatively rare in Manitoba, but the province’s weed specialist has stated that farmers can’t afford to become complacent, The Manitoba Co-operator reports.
Manitoba Agriculture’s Jeanette Gaultier has said that the situation calls for vigilance and testing of any suspected cases.
Read more on The Manitoba Co-operator.ca
Related Articles
- Preserving Genetic Resistance A little variety helps preserve genetic resistance to crop disease. When growers are dealing with crop diseases like blackleg and clubroot in canola and fusarium head blight in cereals, crop varieties with genetic...
- Growers Advised to Check With Their Grain Buyer About Quinclorac Use in 2018 The Canola Council welcomes the recent decision of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues to advance for adoption the proposed maximum residue limit (MRL) for quinclorac in canola. While this is a positive step, t...
- Resistant Weeds Increasing in Prairie Fields Fifty-seven percent of Canada’s largest cropping province now has fields full of herbicide tolerant weeds. Researchers conducted random weed surveys on 400 fields and found that more than 19 million acres in Saska...
- New App Launched to Handle Herbicide Resistance Savvy Farmer has created a new app to help producers and retailers handle herbicide resistance in Western Canada. With over 40 weed species now herbicide resistant to one, if not many different brands of herbicide...
- Rebate on Dow Agro Eclipse and Salute Herbicides Extended to All Farmers Dow AgroSciences has announced that the Diamond Rewards herbicide offer will be open to all growers seeding any Roundup Ready and Clearfield canola varieties this spring. With last fall's late harvest, fields were...
Join the discussion...
You must be logged in as a CAAR member to comment.
Report
My comments