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Alberta Clubroot Management Plan | |
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From the Mar 17, 2008 Issue of Agri-News | |
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| | A revised edition of the Alberta Clubroot Management Plan is now available from Alberta Agriculture and Food. By the end of 2007, clubroot was present in 10 municipalities around Edmonton and one county in southern Alberta. This disease has the potential to spread to most of the traditional canola growing areas of Western Canada. Information on what clubroot is, how it is spread, best management practices to help prevent its spread, and contact information for the Clubroot Management Committee is available in the revised Alberta Clubroot Management Plan. One of the more significant changes to the publication is found in the renamed best management practices section where the list of best management practices was expanded from six to nine points. In this section, the first point on rotation was changed significantly and has separate rotation breaks for light infestations (three years out of canola or ‘one-in-four’) and moderate to heavy infestations (five or more years out of canola). Also, the equipment cleaning point was expanded. The responsibilities of Agricultural Service Boards were expanded to include active surveys for clubroot, and possible provision of infested locations to potential land occupants as allowed under the Agricultural Pest Act. To view this document, go to Alberta Agriculture and Food’s website. |
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For more information about the content of this document, contact Lee Anne Bateman.
This document is maintained by Ada Serafinchon.
This information published to the web on March 12, 2008.
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