Where is farming headed?

[cowman]

Well if the Alberta government never aided the fusarium thing they sure never discouraged it! Their job under the Pest Control Act was to keep it out and they never did that! They broke their own laws!
And sure it was an ugly situation and I don't blame them for not upholding their duty to keep the cattle industry viable. But consider that basically they sacrificed one industry to save another? Thankfully we didn't get fusarium on a large scale, but make no mistake it is here(I know this for a fact)! Waiting for favorable conditions to rear its ugly head! You can't seed a disease that can survive for who knows how long, without consequences? And the results could make a one year drought look like a cakewalk?

[cakadu]

What do you think will happen when the malting barley industry gets hits by fusarium? What happens then?

We seem to be reactive instead of proactive - always playing catch-up and lacking foresight.

[cowman]

Apparently the malting industry can't tolerate hardly any fusarium. I makes the beer foam. So that high priced malt now becomes cow feed!
Cattle can handle a fair amount of fusarium but pigs can't, so there goes the hog barns. Apparently Manitoba hog production is held down by too much fusarium. The B trains haul tombstone barley/feed wheat to feedlot alley and haul back clean grain. There actually is a fair bit of headblight around Lethbridge right now!