{"id":4639,"date":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"tools-to-help-pork-producers-deal-with-the-scourge-of-mycotoxins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/tools-to-help-pork-producers-deal-with-the-scourge-of-mycotoxins\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools to help pork producers deal with the scourge of mycotoxins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher Art Schaafsma explains that they are developing<br \/>\na set of tools which will help the industry deal with<br \/>\nthe various mycotoxins produced by fusarium fungi.  Mycotoxin problems arise if there is warm, rainy weather<br \/>\njust after silking. The more rain days around silking, the<br \/>\ngreater the risk, explains Schaafsma. By the end of August,<br \/>\nhe has a pretty good idea of where the problem areas will<br \/>\nbe. If corn is clean then, a lot of rain in the fall is much less<br \/>\nlikely to cause a problem to develop, he says. However, if the<br \/>\nfungi have started growing by August, a wet fall will make it worse \u201cA forecast would give you a \u2018heads-up\u2019\u201d, says Schaafsma, enabling producers to make informed decisions about which fields to keep and which fields to sell. A similar forecasting tool is already available to wheat growers, who have not raised the same resistance to its use. With corn, \u201cit is very difficult to get support for this,\u201d says Schaafsma. The scientist also recommends<br \/>\nthat growers choose BT varieties because increased<br \/>\ninsect pressure opens the grain to fungal infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher Art Schaafsma explains that they are developing a set of tools which will help the industry deal with the various mycotoxins produced by fusarium fungi. Mycotoxin problems arise if there is warm, rainy weather just after silking. The more rain days around silking, the greater the risk, explains Schaafsma. By the end of August, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,10033,508,4663,286,46,5203,1067,269,6492,26380,358,2891,6149,16262,1324,17152,473,17743,2365,25553,14980,10101,20911,4874,24994,6053,934],"class_list":["post-4639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-arc","tag-contamination","tag-don","tag-dust","tag-feed","tag-fusarium","tag-grower","tag-heat","tag-help","tag-infec","tag-monitoring","tag-mycotoxin","tag-mycotoxins","tag-pl","tag-pork","tag-pork-producers","tag-prevention","tag-prod","tag-risk","tag-scour","tag-search","tag-start","tag-t","tag-tan","tag-usa","tag-use","tag-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}