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Topic: control

Strobilurin fungicides

RESISTANCE A GROWING PROBLEM

September 2022 - MANY IMPORTANT FOLIAR fungal diseases — gray leaf spot and northern leaf blight in corn, for example, and frogeye leaf spot in soybeans — are controlled by foliar fungicides that contain strobilurin active ingredients. These…
The SCN crisis

FINDING SOLUTIONS

March 2022 - SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE (SCN), a devastating root-attacking field pest, is estimated to have cost farmers in Ontario and the United States $1 billion (USD) annually between 2010 and 2019. While Ontario farmers have access to…
Cropside: Maximizing control

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

April 2021 - LAMB’S-QUARTERS HAS consistently been identified as the most abundant and problematic weed affecting field crop production in Ontario. Yet the Pest Management Regulatory Agency database contains hundreds of herbicides that list lamb’s-quarters as a susceptible…
Managing SDS

IS SOIL DEVELOPING ITS OWN DEFENSE?

February 2021 - SOIL MICROORGANISMS FROM a long-established, continuously cropped soybean field in Essex County may hold a key for managing sudden death syndrome (SDS). SDS is a leading yield-limiting soybean disease. It’s caused by a soilborne fungus…