By Charlene Tebbutt

Good crop monitoring leads to better yields

Mar 17, 2018 | 12:00 PM

Determining the best course of action before seeing the results of disease or insects can help minimize damage to crops, a provincial specialist says.

Mitchell Japp, the provincial specialist for cereal crops and irrigation branch with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, said good crop monitoring can help minimize losses down the road. Japp spoke in Tisdale recently at the Think Wheat extension meeting for north central and northeast Saskatchewan farmers, hosted by the Sask Wheat Development Commission.

Japp said factors such as plant genetics and fertility, sunlight, disease, weeds and insects, can all affect yields, but early detection is key.

“Having a good, healthy, mature, even and uniform crop makes a difference,” Japp said. “What we encourage producers to do is try and manage proactively … you have to make a decision before you see the symptoms.”

Japp said other preventative measures, including good rotations of crops, lead to good yields overall.

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“There’s a range of preventative measures to different degrees,” he said.

–With files from Clark Stork

charlene.tebbutt@jpbg.ca

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