Volume 40, Number 17 | NOVEMEBER 11, 2014
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PRACTICAL PRODUCTION TIPS FOR THE PRAIRIE FARMER
New cereal varieties for 2015 There are 14 new cereal varieties on the market this year, including some with fusarium resistance
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AAC RAYMORE
AC AVONLEA
BY LISA GUENTHER
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armers looking for a new cereal to slide into the rotation will have their pick of 14 new varieties, plus a winter wheat that is widely available for the first time this year. Researchers are doing interesting things with cereals these days. Dr. Jamie Larsen, rye breeder with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, is working on rye varieties resistant to ergot. He told Sarah Weigum that they laid down the equivalent of 80 pounds of ergot per acre as part of their efforts to find resistant lines. You can read more about rye research, and Brasetto, a new hybrid rye, in Sarah’s column from the Sept. 2 issue of Grainews. Wet weather caused problems for many farmers this summer, and fusarium head blight took its toll in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Farmers hit by fusarium head blight (FHB) this year might be interested in new varieties from CPS, FP Genetics and SeCan. All three companies are releasing varieties with moderate to excellent FHB resistance. » CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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The sawfly tolerant AAC Raymore stems are solid from top to bottom on almost every plant.
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In This Issue
Wheat & Chaff ..................
2
Features ............................
5
Crop Advisor’s Casebook
8
Columns ........................... 25 Machinery & Shop ............ 37 Cattleman’s Corner .......... 51
Durum breedings
ANDREA HILDERMAN PAGE 20
Outstanding young farmers LEE HART PAGE 44
FarmLife ............................ 55