Kochia is a problem weed in Prairie field crops which reduces crop yield and impedes harvest Kochia is mainly managed with herbicides and has become resistant to several Herbicide-resistant kochia will survive and reproduce when sprayed with a herbicide which normally kills it The study objective…
Weed surveys of annual crops have been regularly conducted in the Prairie Provinces since the 1970’s In the 1990’s, a herbicide resistance component was added to the provincial surveys The objectives of the project were to complete the sixth set of weed surveys in the Prairie Provinces and…
Farmers are looking for appropriate tools and methods for assessing and interpreting the health status of their soils; however, for Saskatchewan there is no standardized and prairie-based soil health test available As such, we focused on developing a soil health testing protocol for arable cropping…
Researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada recently completed the genetic mapping of the blackleg resistance gene Rlm11 Rlm11 is effective against the L maculans isolates carrying the avirulence gene AvrLm11, which is found in 95 percent of L maculans isolates collected from western Canadian…
