Agronomy

Agronomy

STORAGE-RELATED DISEASES: Research Recap

Each year, disease causes economic losses for many growers, but more options are on the way for the management of storage-related diseases. In Canada, numerous...

HEADS-UP ON THE TOP SIX

Canadian growers are facing six major potato storage diseases this season, says Khalil Al-Mughrabi, a pathologist at the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture...

Combined approaches for combating Potato Virus Y

It would be difficult to find any commercial potato grower in Canada who is not aware that the disease known most commonly as “PVY”...

A New Early Warning System for Late Blight

Although still at the experimental stage, initial results look promising for the use of spore traps as a tool for disease forecasting and fungicide...

Eye on the Nation

AlbertaBy Edzo Kok, Executive DirectorPotato Growers of Alberta Near-perfect harvest conditions allowed Alberta growers to get the 2011 crop safely under cover before...

Targeting Late Blight in Canada

The National Late Blight Research Program is taking aim at late blight strains across Canada, helping producers manage this yield-robbing pathogen. This year’s weather conditions...

STORAGE-RELATED DISEASES: Research Recap

Each year, disease causes economic losses for many growers, but more options are on the way for the management of storage-related diseases. In Canada, numerous...

HEADS-UP ON THE TOP SIX

Canadian growers are facing six major potato storage diseases this season, says Khalil Al-Mughrabi, a pathologist at the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture...

Combined approaches for combating Potato Virus Y

It would be difficult to find any commercial potato grower in Canada who is not aware that the disease known most commonly as “PVY”...

A New Early Warning System for Late Blight

Although still at the experimental stage, initial results look promising for the use of spore traps as a tool for disease forecasting and fungicide...

Eye on the Nation

AlbertaBy Edzo Kok, Executive DirectorPotato Growers of Alberta Near-perfect harvest conditions allowed Alberta growers to get the 2011 crop safely under cover before...

Targeting Late Blight in Canada

The National Late Blight Research Program is taking aim at late blight strains across Canada, helping producers manage this yield-robbing pathogen. This year’s weather conditions...