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Economic Development Regina study indicates $11 billion spent during spring seeding

Economic Development Regina (EDR) is calling spring seeding Saskatchewan’s largest megaproject.

EDR’s Data and Analytics team studied the importance of agriculture in the city’s and provincial economies.

President and CEO Chris Lane said the importance of agriculture cannot be understated.

“When you consider the impact of this work extending across our economy, it’s impossible to overstate the value of agriculture to our province and our city,” Lane said.

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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.