b'Essential Role of Growers Keep It Clean identifies five basic tips for all crop growers:Cereals Canada, Pulse Canada and the Canola Council have1. Use acceptable pesticides onlyteamed up to create another initiative to help keep markets2. Always read and follow the labelopen. Its a proactive outreach program for crop growers called3. Grow disease-resistant varieties and use practices that Keep It Clean (keepingitclean.ca).reduce infectionOur growers do a great job. We want to help them continue4. Store your crop properlyto do that. These days, more countries are testing for pesticide5. Deliver what you declareresidues, and more countries are setting their own limits forAs well, the Keep It Clean website has sections specifically residues rather than relying on international standards. Therefor cereal growers, canola growers and pulse growers. Those is also the ability to detect very low levels of residues insections explain how the basic tips relate to each of these three products. We want to ensure that our products are meeting thecrop sectors. [regulatory and contractual] requirements of our end-users.In addition, these crop-specific sections provide details on With the Keep It Clean program, we are ensuring that growerstop concerns for market access. For example, Keep Cereals are aware of what they can do to ensure our exports meet theseClean highlights issues like Fusarium and glyphosate. Keep requirements and to maintain market access, explains Ross. Canola Clean focuses on blackleg, malathion and glyphosate. Dahl says Keep It Cleans key message is what happens onAnd Keep Pulses Clean highlights glyphosate and pulse-specific the farm really matters in international markets. Farmers needtips on applications of crop protection products. For each of to be taking the steps necessary to keep our markets openthe three crop sectors, the list of pesticides that could cause because just a little bit of something that is not supposed tomarketing concerns for growers is updated every year, and be there can close a market. As an example, often pesticidegrowers are encouraged to check the website for the latest residues are measured in parts per billion, but one part perupdates or speak with their grain buyers. billion is [equivalent to] one second in 32 years. And mycotoxinsParticularly during this time of unusual uncertainty in are often measured in parts per trillion, which is one secondinternational trade, Canadian crop growers and the rest of the value in 32,000 years. These are miniscule levels, and yet these arechain need to continue to be vigilant in following practices that the standards that everybody is being held to internationally. Itmeet the requirements of our customers and their governments. Its really does matter what individual farmers do.key to helping markets remain open to Canadian crops. Carolyn KingAsk about a free trial of our weeklyVery Accurate And Fast LoadingTreating Facilitiesnewsletter, GrainwiseRetail And Wholesale Custom Pollination 1-800-440-8390 (Leaf Cutter And Honey Bees)www.grainwatchdog.com SEED VARIETIESHR WHEAT DURUM YELLOW PEA Target contractsSpot pricing AAC Viewfield AAC Spitfire AAC Lacombe Forward pricingMarket updates AAC Brandon GP WHEAT CDC IncaSOFT WHEAT Pasteur LENTILSWe market (feed, gradable, AAC Chiffon VB KWS Sparrow VB CDC Proclaimorganic and off-spec) AAC Sadash VB KWS Alderon HEMP BarleyRyeSoybeansWheat WINTER WHEAT BARLEY PicoloAAC Wildfire CDC Austenson Katani FlaxFaba beansCanolaLentils AAC GatewayCDC Bow Finola OatsPeasMustardTriticale YELLOW FLAX HYBRID FALL RYE OATSCDC Dorado Guttino AC MorganAlberta Based Grain Brokers DanielloPutting Farmers First Since 1995 ProPowerDale Witdouck, 403-635-0099, [email protected] Credit: Sally Jackson Box 65, Iron Springs, AB, T0K 1G0MarketMasterLtd @Grainwatchdog26seed.ab.ca'