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The Manitoba Canola Growers Scholarship Program is now open.

Students who are enrolled in their final year of high school and eligible to graduate in 2024 can now apply for the scholarship.

To be eligible for a scholarship students must live on, work for, or have guardians that work for a farm that is a member of Manitoba Canola Growers Association. 

Applications must be received by April 1, 2024 and will be judged based on academics, canola connection, school and community involvement, and essay submission. 

The top five applicants will be selected and each winner will be presented with a $1000 scholarship.

The scholarship must be used in the two years following high school graduation.

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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.