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Corn Silage Harvest Begins

Manitoba's corn silage harvest is underway.
 
Morgan Cott is an agronomist with the Manitoba Crop Alliance.
 
"I only know of a couple guys that have started, personally. One gentlemen that I did hear from was extremely happy with it."
 
Cott says it will still be a couple of weeks before the grain corn harvest starts, noting a frost would not be welcome at this point as the crop is still maturing.
 
Manitoba Agriculture says total harvest progress is sitting at 56 per cent complete, compared to the three-year average of 63 per cent for this time.
 
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White rot, also known as sclerotinia, is a common agricultural fungal disease caused by various virulent species of Sclerotinia. It initially affects the root system (mycelium) before spreading to the aerial parts through the dissemination of spores.

Sclerotinia is undoubtedly a disease of major economic importance, and very damaging in the event of a heavy attack.

All these attacks come from the primary inoculum stored in the soil: sclerotia. These forms of resistance can survive in the soil for over 10 years, maintaining constant contamination of susceptible host crops, causing symptoms on the crop and replenishing the soil inoculum with new sclerotia.