On Dec. 10 and 11, 2025, Manitoba agronomists met to discuss the latest developments in pest, crop and soil management. This year, the conference theme was “From Gaps to Gains: Unlocking Crop Potential.” Much of the research shared at the Manitoba Agronomists’ Conference was funded in part by Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA). Below is a summary of the posters shared that feature MCA-funded research!

Crop Management

Growing Together: Learnings from Manitoba Spring Wheat YEN Pilot

Andrew Hector, Madison Kostal, Manitoba Crop Alliance; Anne Kirk, Mark Lysack, Manitoba Agriculture

Digging Deeper: Identifying Long-Coleoptile Wheat for Dry Seeding Success

M.K. Carkner, C.A. McCartney, M.H. Entz, University of Manitoba; S. Kumar, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Effect of Preceding Crop and Residue Management on Corn Establishment in Manitoba

Ramona Mohr, Gordon Finlay, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Diffusion-based Dataset Augmentation for Downstream Crop Segmentation

Alex Senden, Masoomeh Gomroki, Robert Gulden, Christopher Henry, University of Manitoba

SOIL MANAGEMENT

Investigating the Effects of Soil Moisture and Temperature on the Transformation of N Fertilizer in Soil

Carlie Johnston, Xiaopeng Gao, Ramona Mohr, Timi Ojo, University of Manitoba; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

The Influence of Nitrogen Stabilizers and Split Fertilizer Application on Agronomic Performance and Mitigation of N2O Emission from Canadian Western Red Spring (CWRS) Wheat

L.H.N. Sawbhagya, B. Sparling, M. Tenuta, University of Manitoba; M. St. Luce, B. May, H. Kubota, B. Beres, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Pest Management

CWRepViT-Net: An Encoder-Decoder Deep Learning Framework with RepViT Blocks for Crop Weed Semantic Segmentation in Soybean Fields through their Life Journey

Masoomeh Gomroki, Dilshan Benaragma, Christopher Henry, Nasem Badreldin, Rob Gulden, University of Manitoba

Bacterial Leaf Streak Transmission Driven by Seed Infection and Irrigation

Vinuri Weerasinghe, Malini Jayawardana, Shaheen Bibi, W.G. Dilantha Fernando, University of Manitoba

For a full list of poster presentations and speakers from the 2025 conference, visit the Manitoba Agronomists’ Conference website. 

Thank you to the conference partners, the University of Manitoba Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Manitoba Agriculture, for hosting an excellent conference!