According to Thompsons’ IP Elite newsletter, Ontario’s dry bean crop is now well into blossoming with pin pods forming on some of the earlier planted beans. Plant size remains small because of the continued dry weather. The rains however were very spotty.
Michigan’s central and southern dry bean producing areas received moisture last week however other bean growing regions in the state remain dry which may cause yields to vary widely at harvest.
The Manitoba crop continues to progress rapidly. Last week brought a dry week with moderate temperatures. Fungicide spraying has stopped as dryer conditions lessened the likelihood of mold pressure.
Other disease (anthracnose) problems appear isolated at this point. Read the entire story here

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