Causes of Defective Beans After dry bean harvest, producers may wonder what caused beans to become injured or discoloured. It is typically easier to observe the plants throughout the season and identify disease or insect injury on pods to better understand the resulting injury on the beans within the pods. However, bean injury may have […]
Co-authored with Chris Gillard, University of Guelph- Ridgetown Campus The 2016 season was relatively dry, and one thing edible bean growers did not have to contend with was anthracnose. In Ontario we have not seen a significant infestation of anthracnose since 2010. Can we continue to keep anthracnose at bay into the future? History of […]
The hot, dry weather conditions to date have not been very conducive to foliar leaf diseases across most of the province. In most cases, besides high relative humidity, prolonged wet conditions on the leaves are necessary for infection but only under favourable temperatures (16-30oC). What has started to show recently in the southwest are the […]