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Crop Report - May 13

Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development says total seeding progress is sitting at about 9 per cent complete, compared to the three-year average of 25 per cent.
 
Seeding has started for field peas, spring wheat, barley, faba beans and grain corn in all regions. Canola and sunflower planting has begun in the northwest and eastern regions.
 
Farmers are managing soil surface moisture with vertical tillage, multi-pass harrowing, or residue burning.
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LALEXPERT: Sclerotinia cycle and prophylactic methods

Video: LALEXPERT: Sclerotinia cycle and prophylactic methods

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.