News & Updates

On July 30, 2025, Keep it Clean hosted a webinar aimed at protecting the marketability of Canada’s canola, cereal and pulse crops. Topics included proper staging for pre-harvest glyphosate application, the importance of following pre-harvest intervals for crop protection products and scouting for disease​.

Maintaining a reputation for clean, safe grain is crucial for both domestic and international markets. Contaminated shipments can lead to costly rejections, recalls and damage to market confidence. This is especially true when considering the unintentional mingling of allergenic grains with cereals. 

While drone technology is advancing quickly, drones cannot yet be used to apply pesticides on field crops in Canada. According to Health Canada, drone application can only appear on product labels once the risks and value have been considered and determined to be acceptable. Until pesticide labels are updated to specifically allow drone applications on field […]

Ergot is a fungal disease that can infect wheat, barley, oats, durum, rye and canary seed, as well as grassy weeds in your fields. Ergot bodies contain harmful alkaloids and should not be consumed by humans or fed to animals. Implementing proactive management strategies is crucial to minimize the risk of ergot contamination. While ergot […]

Do not use glufosinate-ammonium on pulses. There is an elevated risk of maximum residue limit (MRL) related trade disruption if glufosinate is used on pulses due to missing or very low MRLs in export markets. Glufosinate is registered for use in Western Canada only on lentils for certain generic glufosinate products but should never be […]

On April 24, 2025, Keep it Clean hosted a webinar that provided an overview of the product and crop combinations that may cause market risks for the 2025 growing season.

The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has published an information note announcing the reinstatement of grain treated with lambda-cyhalothrin as an acceptable source of livestock feed, effective immediately. The reinstatement applies to grain and meal from treated canola, cereals, field corn, soybeans and pulses.