Join Lionel and a panel of specialists as they discuss the 2025 growing season and answer your questions. This will be a great opportunity to discuss issues that you dealt with this past growing season and learn more about what to expect for 2026.

10:00 AM Soybean Health Check 2025: What’s Lurking in Manitoba Soybean Fields
Dr. Ahmed Abdelmagid, Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
With soybean acres continuing to expand across Manitoba, understanding field disease dynamics is more important than ever. Join Ahmed for highlighting observations from the 2025 soybean disease survey and some practical management strategies for growers. 

10:30 AM  Agronomy Drivers Ed: Learning From 2025 Driver Weeds
Jeanette Gaultier, Ph.D., CCA, BASF Agsolutions Canada, @BASFAgsolutions, @JDGaultier
Weeds are an inevitable and dynamic reality of farming. Let’s discuss the weeds that drove our management decisions in 2025 and are likely to continue into 2026. Join Jeanette as she focuses on some of the most problematic weeds and what is – and isn’t – working to control them.

11:00 AM The year of the Weevil: Insect Review
John Gavloski, Entomologist, Manitoba Agriculture, @MBGovAg
While some insects, such as grasshoppers and aphids, were overall of less concern in Manitoba in 2025 compared to recent years, some insects had substantial population increases. Join John as he shares details on the cabbage seedpod weevil, pea leaf weevil and the alfalfa weevil as well as other insects of concern in 2025 including flea beetles, bertha armyworm and diamondback moth in canola, armyworms in cereals, and Lygus bugs and cutworms.

11:30 AM Question and Answer Period