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Moisture May Put Pulses At Higher Risk For Disease

2016 is the International Year of Pulses.
 
Good market prices resulted in a large number of producers in the province increasing the number of acres they seeded to pulses.
 
Sherrilyn Phelps is the Agronomy and Seed Program Manager with Saskatchewan Pulse Growers.
 
"Some of the biggest challenges at it varies across the province and some of it started with trying to get herbicide timing in between the rain and depending on the crop staging some later applications of herbicide so weed control was a bit of an issue. Another thing that has been showing up is root ross"
 
She says for the most part (where storm damage hasn’t been an issue) crops are looking good.
 
Phelps says with all the moisture we’re seeing, the risk for disease is much higher than normal.
 
"So producers and agronomists have been trying to get the fungicides on at the appropriate stages and in some cases are starting to get to the second applications as well."
 
Source : Discoverestevan

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