Diversity Key to Battle Mother Nature

Brandon Sun, The (August 07, 2008)

Author: Rance, Laura

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Soybean aphids have moved in, but as of last week, provincial extension workers were urging farmers to avoid spraying unless the insects are causing significant enough damage to justify the cost.

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Diversity Key to Battle Mother Nature

It only takes one look at the corn fields this summer to know the growing season has been, in a word - sluggish.

Instead of living up to the old axiom "knee high by July" the crop was barely past the ankles at the beginning of last month. ...

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