Simple Tip #3:
Manage Disease Pressures

An integrated disease management plan is important to maintain yield and profitability and can help protect Canada’s reputation as a supplier of high-quality canola, cereals and pulses. Diseases like blackleg in canola and fusarium head blight (FHB) in cereals may also create a market risk.

Protect your investment by following these disease management tips for all crops:

• Grow disease resistant varieties when available.
• Consider applying an appropriately timed fungicide when there is an elevated risk of disease.
• Plan crop rotations to manage disease.
• Plant clean seed and consider a seed treatment under high-risk conditions to improve plant stand and crop competitiveness.
• Control volunteer plants, weeds and other susceptible hosts of the disease.
• Use an integrated pest management approach.

Managing Blackleg in Canola

Blackleg in canola can cause yield and quality losses, impact profitability and may create a market risk.