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Manitoba Agriculture Crop Report

  • Warm temperatures continue to advance crops quickly. 
     
  • Rain fell throughout the province, but most areas received limited amounts and more is still needed. 
     
  • Harvest of winter cereals and peas is nearing completion. Spring cereal harvest continues, and canola is starting to be harvested in the central region.
     
  • Haying continues, but in dry areas there is minimal re-growth.  Rain is needed to improve pasture conditions. 
 
Source : Manitoba Agriculture

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Weeds along fence lines and typically their delayed control with leftover herbicides after seeding has long proved a problem for achieving optimum weed control within cropping paddocks and keeping herbicide resistance at bay. However, alternative mode of action, pre-emergent residual herbicides have recently become available and one in particular is showing that, when applied early with existing knockdowns, it offers excellent length of control, good safety to trees and potential to reduce resistance development.