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Sclerotinia could be bad this year but the window to apply fungicide has closed for most crops. Rhizoctonia foot rot, shown above, may explain some toppling plants. The weeks leading up to harvest are a good time to scout for blackleg and clubroot…
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Soil on seeding equipment is a key vector for the movement of clubroot spores from field to field. Cleaning dirt from equipment before leaving a clubroot-infested field is a good disease management practice. Avoid working in known clubroot-infested fields when soil is wet and more likely to stick to equipment…
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If you don't have clubroot, be sure any used or demo’d equipment you buy is clean before you bring it home. Clean equipment before it leaves the auction site or the farm it comes from. Also check that the transport truck is clean. As a precaution, you may want to pressure wash the equipment again when it gets to your…
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Growers are encouraged to examine strange disease patterns to see if clubroot has arrived on their farms…