Agriculture Roundup for Monday February 27, 2023
MELFORT, Sask. – The governments of Saskatchewan and Alberta want to get an insecticide used by some farmers re-approved by Ottawa.
The federal Pest Management Regulatory Agency recently altered the approved uses for lambda-cyhalothrin, a pesticide used to control grasshoppers and flea beetles.
The change means the chemical can no longer be used on any crop that could end up as livestock feed and as a result, the manufacturers have pulled it from Western Canada.
Both provinces said due to continued drought in some parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan, grasshoppers are again likely to be a significant concern in the coming growing season.