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Webinar: Crop Disease Control and Management

Agriculture
Date posted May 10, 2021
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TELUS Agriculture and Olds College hosted a complimentary webinar discussing crop disease control and management, disease cycles and how technology can support more accurate and timely disease-related decisions.

Some of the most critical issues in crop disease management stem from getting a correct disease diagnosis. Technology such as weather innovation, satellite imagery, precision agronomy and digital farm management can help support more accurate and timely crop disease decision making. By attending this webinar, you will earn 0.5 of a crop management continuing education unit (CEU).

Watch the recording to learn more about:

  • An overview of plant disease management, preventable measures and disease risk

  • How weather solutions can provide predictive analysis for enhanced crop management and application timing

  • How satellite imagery can be used as a disease management tool

  • Ways digital farm management record-keeping can help proactively manage disease risk and overall best management and scouting practices

  • Q&A with all speakers

Speakers

  • Dr. Kelly Turkington, Research Scientist – Plant Pathology, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe

  • Manish Patel, Weather INnovations Consulting LP

  • Kristina Polziehn, Business Development Manager, Agronomist, Hummingbird Technologies by TELUS Agriculture

  • Garth Donald, Manager of Agronomy, Decisive Farming by TELUS Agriculture

  • Moderator: Susan Cooley-Pottier, Senior Product Manager, TELUS Agriculture

Watch the webinar recording.

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