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Scouting for Fusarium Head Blight

Still with pests, but of a disease nature, Kelly Turkington, research scientist with Agriculture Canada in Lacombe, says producers should be thinking about scouting their fields for fusarium head blight.

Interview with Kelly Turkington (3:04 minutes) (1.40 Mb)

 
 
Source : Alberta Ag and Forestry

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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.