INCREASED AWARENESS Set to continue until spring 2024, SCN coalition participants will share research and lessons in managing the pest in order to achieve a number of objectives — evaluating the effectiveness of SCN sources of resistance via management trials being the first. Second comes evaluations of nematicides and other products for SCN, plus corn nematode. Driving wider grower awareness of SCN, its corn-attacking counterpart, and integrated pest management practices comprises another component. This will be accomplished through extension and resource sharing, as well as the SCN coalition’s website (www.thescncoalition.com). Another objective involves establishing Ontariospecific benchmarking data for SCN losses via a grower survey. Results of the survey are intended to help determine future research priorities, and general focus, of the SCN coalition. ONTARIO GRAIN FARMER 27 MARCH 2022 This research project received funding from Grain Farmers of Ontario. “Like our research into Sudden Death Syndrome, what we’re doing now is about getting ahead of the problem,” says Eskandari. “More options will give growers the performance, and provide breeders and seed companies with alternative options for their research and cultivar development programs.” This project is funded by the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a five-year investment by Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments. l
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