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Ag community celebrates Earth Day

The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970

By Diego Flammini
Assistant Editor, North American Content
Farms.com

Every April 22 is recognized as Earth Day, a celebration of healthy, sustainable environments. 

As stewards of the land, farmers are well aware of the Earth's contributions to making agriculture flourish.

Members of the ag community took to social media to show their appreciation for the Earth and its role in farming.

Here's a collection of some social media posts celebrating Earth Day.



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LALEXPERT: Sclerotinia cycle and prophylactic methods

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White rot, also known as sclerotinia, is a common agricultural fungal disease caused by various virulent species of Sclerotinia. It initially affects the root system (mycelium) before spreading to the aerial parts through the dissemination of spores.

Sclerotinia is undoubtedly a disease of major economic importance, and very damaging in the event of a heavy attack.

All these attacks come from the primary inoculum stored in the soil: sclerotia. These forms of resistance can survive in the soil for over 10 years, maintaining constant contamination of susceptible host crops, causing symptoms on the crop and replenishing the soil inoculum with new sclerotia.