News - Fusarium

A winter wheat breeder with the University of Manitoba says a new fusarium resistant winter wheat offers farmers a new tool for dealing with fusarium head blight.

A winter wheat breeder with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada expects western Canada’s first fusarium head blight resistant winter wheat to be of particular interest to grain growers in Manitoba’s Red River Valley.

A wheat breeder with the University of Manitoba recommends a multi-pronged approach for reducing the potential for yield and quality loses in cereal crops resulting from fusarium head blight.

A plant pathologist with the University of Manitoba reports a new more virulent strain of fusarium head blight has become the dominant strain in western Canada.

The head of Agriculture Canada’s Seed Increase Unit is encouraging swine producers to consider either hulless oats or hulless barley as one way of reducing the potential for mycotoxin contamination of feed from fusarium head blight.

A researcher with the University of Manitoba says there are several strategies pork producers can use to minimize the effects of the mycotoxins produced by molds that attack feed grains.

A mycologist with the Canadian Grain Commission blames warm wet weather conditions during the summer and at harvest for an increased prevalence of fungal diseases during the 2010 growing season.

The Canadian Grain Commission suggests the increased prevalence of a new more virulent strain of fusarium graminearum is a good example of why we need to continually monitor the occurrence of newly introduced plant pathogens.

The Canadian Grain Commission reports fusarium head blight caused downgrading of cereal grains throughout western Canada this year.

The Prairie Swine Centre is advising hog producers to be aware of the potential risks posed by fusarium head blight contaminated feed grains.