Current Crop Topics

The latest information on crop management and agronomy issues in field and horticultural crops in Manitoba, including information in regards to environmental impacts and the agronomy tools to manage. 

2024

• Decision Making for Poor Stands of Winter Wheat

2023

• When to Apply Winter Protection to Strawberry Fields
• Key Times for Strawberry Irrigation
• Leafhopper Foliar Activity on Apple Trees and Fruit Crops
• Managing Spotted Wing Drosophila in Berry Crops
• Heat Stress on New Strawberry Plantings
• Strawberry Disease Forecast 2023 - Control of Grey Mold (Botrytis)
• Preventing Strawberry Seedy-End
• Protecting Saskatoon Yields from Disease
• Assessing Winter Wheat Survival
• Stretching Fertilizer Dollars & Supplies

2022

• Crop Rotation Planning
• Flax Straw Management
• Growing Flax
• Growing Oilseed Sunflowers
• Staging Corn
• Weed Control in Conventional Sunflowers

General Agronomy Articles 

• Spring Frost Damage
• Effect of Frost on Saskatoons and Strawberries
• Effect of Spring Frost on Emerging Crops

 Other

• Fluency Agent Mandatory Seed Lubricant in Corn and Soybean
• Impact of In-Season Sprayer Tracks on Corn Yields
• Soybean Cyst Nematode Manitoba Distribution Map - July 2021
• Water Parsnip or Water Hemlock - Pictures to Help Diagnose 

 

Crop Management and Production Economics:

• Cost of Production Guides and Interactive Calculators
• Seed Manitoba 
• Nitrogen Rate Calculator for Wheat, Barley and Canola (XLS) 
• Phosphorus Balance Calculator (XLS)
• Guide to Field Crop Protection 

Weekly Reports

• Seasonal Reports
• CropTalk - webinar series

Disease Risk Maps and Economic Calculators:

• Daily Fusarium Head Blight Risk Maps
• Sclerotinia Treatment Decision Tool - Canola (XLSX) 
• Sclerotinia Treatment Decision Tool - Sunflowers (XLSX)

 

Presentations

Ag Days Presentations Jan 2025:

• Impact of Weather on Insects
• CropTalk Panel