Considering Manitoba's weather, I don't doubt that conditions favour an economic return on chemicals but we can do better than this. This is an opportunity,
disease has bad years too and they shouldn't be a surprise. Spray as needed, not as feared!

As a pathologist, this article feels weird to me. The story is about why we cannot trust one year of field data but it feels weirdly defensive of fungicides. If we are seeing variation in disease expression despite conditions, maybe something more is going on there?

To a happy next year then.

Thank goodness the wheat is already off...

There are better techniques now for this than trapping. An environmental DNA survey can determine presence and relative number better than a trapping program. It is less stressful on the animals too.

The smile on the orca must be something sinister.