Manitoba Agriculture is gearing up for a special crops, disease training and variety evaluation trial tours next week Thursday at the Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization (WADO) at their Melita area test plots.

The tours will take place from 9:00 AM until noon focusing on corn, flax and sunflowers, says Applied Research Analyst, Scott Chalmers.

"You can join us with some of our specialists here and the Manitoba Crop Alliance is sponsoring that as well, with their specialists here talking about corn, flax and sunflower," explains Chalmers. "And so, the tour begins just northeast of Melitta, about 1/2 mile inside a corn crop. And any farmer or agronomist is welcome to join and check it out. We'll be talking about diseases and varieties, and we're going to be moving around from

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