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Weekly Update

Week 4 and scouting continues despite the rain, some frost, and all those other crazy springtime things that affect agriculture! Be sure to catch the Insect of the Week – it’s pea leaf weevil! Click to review scouting information for cutworms, wireworms, pea leaf weevil, ladybird beetles, canola and flax scouting charts, Field Heroes, and the 2021 crop protection guides, plus there’s more updated information coming your way this week!

Stay safe and good scouting to you!

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Crop protection guides

Access the following links to gain important pesticide application information and registered products for agricultural field crop protection on the Canadian prairies:
• Saskatchewan’s Crop Protection Guide – 2021
• Manitoba’s Guide to Crop Protection 2021
• Alberta’s 2021 Crop Protection or Blue Book
• Western Committee on Crop Pests Guide to Integrated Control of Insect Pests of Crops

Preparing and protecting grains for market

REMINDER – A few helpful tools to keep at your finger tips:

Since May we have posted our prairie provinces’ searchable PDFs of Crop Production Guides.

Keeping It Clean has information to help prepare and protect your grains for market.  Check out their site to find important information.  Learn more about avoiding malathion in bins storing canola, access their spray to swath calculator, and access a pre-harvest glyphosate staging guide. 

The Canadian Grain Commission has information to help you manage stored grain.  Read tips to prepare your bins to prevent insect infestations.  If there are insects in your grain, use their online diagnostic tools to help identify the problem species.  If pest species are confirmed, there are control options – read more to make the right choice for your grain storage system and your specific grain.

Interested in signing up for Canadian Grain Commission’s Harvest Sample Program?

Preparing and protecting grains for market

A few helpful tools to keep at your finger tips:

Since May we have posted our prairie provinces’ searchable PDFs of Crop Production Guides.

Keeping It Clean has information to help prepare and protect your grains for market.  Check out their site to find important information.  Learn more about avoiding malathion in bins storing canola, access their spray to swath calculator, and access a pre-harvest glyphosate staging guide. 

The Canadian Grain Commission has information to help you manage stored grain.  Read tips to prepare your bins to prevent insect infestations.  If there are insects in your grain, use their online diagnostic tools to help identify the problem species.  If pest species are confirmed, there are control options – read more to make the right choice for your grain storage system and your specific grain.

Interested in signing up for Canadian Grain Commission’s Harvest Sample Program?

Crop protection guides

Crop Protection Guides – If you don’t have a copy of your province’s Crop Protection Guide, please make use of these links to access the PDF version of the:

Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2018 Posts – click to review:

Abundant parasitoids in canola – Week 10
Alfalfa weevil – Week 6

Cabbage seedpod weevil – Week 8 
Cabbage root maggot – Week 11 
Cereal aphid manager (CAM) – Week 2
Cereal leaf beetle – Week 5
Cereal leaf beetle larvae request – Week 8
Crop protection guides – Week 2
Crop reports – Week 8
Cutworms – Week 4

Diamondback moth – Week 7
Download the field guide – Week 10

Field heroes – Week 8
Flea beetles – Week 4

Monarch migration – Week 8

Pea leaf weevil – Week 8
PMRA Pesticide Label Mobile App – Week 4

Scouting charts (canola and flax) – Week 3

Ticks and Lyme Disease – Week 4

Weather radar – Week 3
White grubs in fields – Week 8
Wind trajectories – Week 6
Wireworm distribution maps – Week 6

Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2018 Posts – click to review:

Abundant parasitoids in canola – Week 10

Alfalfa weevil – Week 6

Cabbage seedpod weevil – Week 8 
Cereal aphid manager (CAM) – Week 2
Cereal leaf beetle – Week 5
Cereal leaf beetle larvae request – Week 8
Crop protection guides – Week 2
Crop reports – Week 8
Cutworms – Week 4

Diamondback moth – Week 7
Download the field guide – Week 10

Field heroes – Week 8
Flea beetles – Week 4

Monarch migration – Week 8

Pea leaf weevil – Week 8
PMRA Pesticide Label Mobile App – Week 4

Scouting charts (canola and flax) – Week 3

Ticks and Lyme Disease – Week 4

Weather radar – Week 3
Wind trajectories – Week 6
Wireworm distribution maps – Week 6
White grubs in fields – Week 8

Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2018 Posts – click to review:

Alfalfa weevil – Week 6

Cabbage seedpod weevil – Week 8 
Cereal aphid manager (CAM) – Week 2
Cereal leaf beetle – Week 5
Cereal leaf beetle larvae request – Week 8
Crop protection guides – Week 2
Crop reports – Week 8
Cutworms – Week 4

Diamondback moth – Week 7

Field heroes – Week 8
Flea beetles – Week 4

Monarch migration – Week 8

Pea leaf weevil – Week 8
PMRA Pesticide Label Mobile App – Week 4

Scouting charts (canola and flax) – Week 3

Ticks and Lyme Disease – Week 4

Weather radar – Week 3
West nile virus – Week 8
Wind trajectories – Week 6
Wireworm distribution maps – Week 6
White grubs in fields – Week 8

Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2018 Posts – click to review:

Alfalfa weevil – Week 6

Cereal aphid manager (CAM) – Week 2
Cereal leaf beetle – Week 5
Crop protection guides – Week 2
Cutworms – Week 4

Diamondback moth – Week 7

Flea beetles – Week 4

PMRA Pesticide Label Mobile App – Week 4

Scouting charts (canola and flax) – Week 3

Ticks and Lyme Disease – Week 4

Weather radar – Week 3
Wind trajectories – Week 6
Wireworm distribution maps – Week 6

Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2018 Posts – click to review:

Alfalfa weevil – Week 6

Cereal aphid manager (CAM) – Week 2
Cereal leaf beetle – Week 5
Crop protection guides – Week 2
Cutworms – Week 4

Flea beetles – Week 4

PMRA Pesticide Label Mobile App – Week 4

Scouting charts (canola and flax) – Week 3

Ticks and Lyme Disease – Week 4

Weather radar – Week 3
Wind trajectories – Week 6
Wireworm distribution maps – Week 6

Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2018 Posts – click to review:

Cereal aphid manager (CAM) – Week 2
Cereal leaf beetle – Week 5
Crop protection guides – Week 2
Cutworms – Week 4

Flea beetles – Week 4

PMRA Pesticide Label Mobile App – Week 4

Scouting charts (canola and flax) – Week 3

Ticks and Lyme Disease – Week 4

Weather radar – Week 3

Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2018 Posts – click to review:

Cereal aphid manager (CAM) – Week 2
Crop protection guides – Week 2
Cutworms – Week 4

Flea beetles – Week 4

PMRA Pesticide Label Mobile App – Week 4

Scouting charts (canola and flax) – Week 3

Ticks and Lyme Disease – Week 4

Weather radar – Week 3

Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2018 Posts – click to review:

Cereal aphid manager (CAM) – Week 2
Crop protection guides – Week 2


Scouting charts (canola and flax) – Week 3


Weather radar – Week 3

Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2018 Posts – click to review:


Cereal aphid manager (CAM) – Week 2
Crop protection guides – Week 2

Crop protection guides

Crop Protection Guides – If you don’t have a copy of your province’s Crop Protection Guide, please make use of these links to access:
• Saskatchewan’s Crop Protection Guide
• Manitoba’s Guide to Crop Protection Guide 
• Alberta’s Crop Protection or Blue Book 
• Western Committee on Crop Pests Guidelines for the Control of Crop Pests

Weekly Update – Crop protection guides

Crop Protection Guides – If you don’t have a copy of your province’s Crop Protection Guide, please make use of these links to access:
• Saskatchewan’s Crop Protection Guide
• Manitoba’s Guide to Crop Protection Guide 
• Alberta’s Crop Protection or Blue Book 
• Western Committee on Crop Pests Guidelines for the Control of Crop Pests


Recall earlier this spring that Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency launched a new mobile app to access pesticide labels registered for use in Canada. The App helps homeowners, farmers, industry, provincial and federal organizations access details for pest control products from a smartphone or tablet.  Download it as either:

Weekly Update – Crop protection guides

Crop Protection Guides – If you don’t have a copy of your province’s Crop Protection Guide, please make use of these links to access:
• Saskatchewan’s Crop Protection Guide
• Manitoba’s Guide to Crop Protection Guide 
• Alberta’s Crop Protection or Blue Book 
• Western Committee on Crop Pests Guidelines for the Control of Crop Pests




Recall earlier this spring that Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency launched a new mobile app to access pesticide labels registered for use in Canada. The App helps homeowners, farmers, industry, provincial and federal organizations access details for pest control products from a smartphone or tablet.  Download it as either:

Weekly Update – Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2017 Posts – click to review:

Canola scouting chart
Crop protection guides

Diamondback moth

Flax scouting chart

Iceberg reports


Lily leaf beetle


Ticks and Lyme disease

Weekly Update – Previous Posts

The following is a list of 2017 Posts – click to review:


Canola scouting chart
Crop protection guides


Diamondback moth


Flax scouting chart


Iceberg reports

Weekly Update – Crop protection guides

Crop Protection Guides – If you don’t have a copy of your province’s Crop Protection Guide, please make use of these links to access:
• Saskatchewan’s Crop Protection Guide
• Manitoba’s Guide to Crop Protection Guide 
• Alberta’s Crop Protection or Blue Book 
• Western Committee on Crop Pests Guidelines for the Control of Crop Pests

Weekly Update – Crop protection guides

Crop Protection Guides – If you don’t have a copy of your province’s Crop Protection Guide, please make use of these links to access:
• Saskatchewan’s Crop Protection Guide
• Manitoba’s Guide to Crop Protection Guide 
• Alberta’s Crop Protection or Blue Book 
• Western Committee on Crop Pests Guidelines for the Control of Crop Pests

Weekly Update – Crop Protection Guides

Reminder – Crop Protection Guides – If you don’t have a copy of your province’s Crop Protection Guide, please make use of these links to access:

Weekly Update – Crop Protection Guides

Reminder – Crop Protection Guides – If you don’t have a copy of your province’s Crop Protection Guide, please make use of these links to access:

Weekly Update – Crop protection guide

Reminder – Crop Protection Guides – If you don’t have a copy of your province’s Crop Protection Guide, please make use of these links to access:

Weekly Update – Crop protection guide

Crop Protection Guides – If you don’t have a copy of your province’s Crop Protection Guide, please make use of these links to access: