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Begin your pre-harvest disease watch
Yield-robbing levels of disease will be easy to spot in canola fields now and through to harvest. The Canola Council of Canada says this is a great time to start your pre-harvest disease scouting.
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Alberta honey bee winterkill drops in 2013-14
Alberta beekeepers reported that 18.5 per cent of the province’s honey bees died during the 2013-2014 winter, with the most likely cause of winterkill to be cold spring and poor quality queens.
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Farmers disappointed Ottawa not offering help for flooded fields
Ottawa is not offering Prairie farmers any immediate, special help to recover from this year’s flood, which some peg at costing producers $1 billion in lost revenue.
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Look for FHB-resistant winter wheat this fall
The first-ever Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistant winter wheat variety, Emerson, will be available to farmers for planting fall of 2014. Emerson CWRW is the first resistant variety of any wheat class.
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