In the second half of last year’s growing season, Sabine Banniza’s phone began ringing more often than normal. Banniza is the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture Strategic Research Program Chair in Pulse Crop Pathology, and she’s where agrologists and growers turn when they can’t identify a pulse disease. In this instance, a disease was sweeping through […] Read more
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Dry beans strong potential for southern dryland Prairies
Fertilizer, so far, the key to yield; inoculation and fixation not as important as for other prairie pulse crops
Inoculating solid-seeded CDC Blackstrap beans across five research areas in Saskatchewan produced no tangible results. “What we found is that we had a complete inoculant failure. The product that we were able to access did not offer us any yield advantage to inoculation,” said Garry Hnatowich, research director at the Irrigation Crop Diversification Corp. in […] Read more
