Pest Profile: Wild Oats
Avena fatua
Avena fatua
Properly protecting your pea crop from weeds is difficult enough as it is. Compared to other crops, peas are poor competitors, especially...
Volunteer canola is especially challenging to control in herbicide-tolerant crops like soybeans. It can be incredibly competitive, and its...
Canada thistle is a persistent weed that has threatened the yields of farmers far longer than Canada has been a country. A member of the sunflower...
Also known as leaf rust, crown rust can infect cultivated oat, wild oat and a few wild grasses, but won’t infect cereals like wheat, barley or rye...
Fall is an excellent time to prepare your fields for the next growing season, especially when it comes to dealing with perennial weeds like...
Septoria leaf spot is a common leaf disease causing premature defoliation. Though it overwinters on infected leaves and twigs, wind and rain can...
Redroot pigweed is an annual broadleaf weed that has developed resistance to Group 2 herbicides in Western Canada, and Group 5 resistance in the U...
Highly mobile and infectious, stripe rust is a devastating disease that can cause substantial losses in cereal crops. The presence of just one...
Blackleg is a serious disease known to cause up to 50% yield loss in canola fields. It can infect plants from the seedling stage onward, causing...