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2010 MB Sunflower Surveillance Survey - FINAL Weekly Report
Surveying and crop reporting is underway for the 2010 season, click on the link below to view this weeks field report. If you are interested in receiving the updates in your inbox, email the office at info@canadasunflower.com to be added to our distribution list.

MB Sunflower Surveillance Survey Report for the week of August 30th, 2010.

SPECIAL REPORT - RUST ID CARD

SUNFLOWER NEWS - HEADLINE® fungicide receives Canadian registration on sunflowers in time for 2010 season
To view the full press release, click here.

MB Special Crops Symposium - Sunflower Presentation Proceedings

Please click on the topics below to view the full presentation:

Manitoba Sunflower Surveillance Survey - Kristen Podolsky, NSAC

Insect Monitoring in Sunflowers - John Gavloski, MAFRI

Sunflower Seed Spacing Performance - John Smith, U of Nebraska

Yield Losses for Kochia and Biennial Wormwood in Sunflower - Derek Lewis, UofM

2009 Variety Trial Data NOW AVAILABLE

The 2009 Sunflower Variety Trial data is now available for all members to view. With the recent amendments put in place by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on July 8th, 2009, the registration requirements for sunflowers have been amended in such that merit based testing is no longer required. With this amendment, non-ornamental sunflowers no longer require a recommending committee, as there is no merit consideration and no pre-market assessment requirement. Therefore, as of December 31st, 2009 the Manitoba Sunflower Committee has dissolved and will no longer conduct Co-op testing in the future.

The National Sunflower Association of Canada has agreed to continue conducting the MB Sunflower Post-Registration Trials in conjunction with MCVET and for 2010 will have 6 trial sites around Manitoba along with a disease evaluation trial. Companies interested in testing hybrids in 2010 should contact the NSAC office at (204) 745-6776 for information.

To view the 2009 Manitoba Post-Registration Trial Data

To view the 2009 Manitoba Sunflower Committee Trial Data

Sunflower Cash Advance Rates
The 2010-2011 Cash Advance Program for Special Crops is now available. It entitles each producer to $100,000.00 Interest Free and an additional $300,000.00 with an Interest charge of Prime – ¼%. No producer is allowed to go over the $400,000.00 total at any time – this includes money received from any other administrators such as CWB or CCGA.

Pre-Production Advance Rates for this year are as follows:

Confectionary Sunflowers $0.14/lb
Oilseed Sunflowers $0.09/lb

Final Deadlines for Applications is March 15, 2011. The Sunflower Cash Advance program is adminsitered by the Manitoba Corn Growers Association. For more infomration or to apply for a Sunflower Cash Advance contact MCGA at 1-877-598-5685.

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