Multiple reports this week (Coona to Qld) of circular bleached spots in cereals. Debate if contact herbicide or droplet freeze. Key message is NOT disease so fungicide application not warranted. No yellow margin and white not tan so NOT yellow spot! agric.wa.gov.au/mycrop/diagnos…

Updated ACRCP Cereal Rust map - check it out google.com/maps/d/edit?mi…. So far, we've received only two samples of Stripe Rust. Please send more samples to PBI Cobbitty. Big year ahead. GRDC GRDC North GRDC South Steven Simpfendorfer

Stripe rust 2024 around the grounds. Keen to get understanding of where you are and are not seeing it so far in terms of variety and fungicide strategy with photo proof. Mick Harris kicking it off with Flanker 10k SW Narromine no flutriafol at sowing. GRDC @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY

Following reports from the Mallee, stripe rust now detected in the South Vic. Monitor crops for symptoms, susceptible crops may need attention GRDC South Agriculture Victoria Field Crop Diseases Victoria

🎧PODCAST: cereal disease update🎧 NSW Agriculture's Brad Baxter, Simphy & Sam Blanch chat to us re: 🦠Cereal diseases: current issues & potential ones. ❓Frequent questions they are being asked. 🚜Fungicides & the kick-back period. 🟠Stripe rust & adult plant resistance (APR)

The George Hulbert Seed Vault at Wagga was made possible thanks to a significant investment from #NSWGovt NSW Agriculture Tara Moriarty and will be used to preserve and research valuble germplasm across NSW DPIRD NSW Agronomy🌱

Us as growers, advisors and researchers, along with wider industry, are lucky to have such an invaluable resource available to support us!

❓❓❓Growing cereal on cereal❓❓❓ ❓❓❓Know your disease risk for crown rot❓❓❓ ❓❓❓Want help to find out❓❓❓ ...and its FREE😃 Free stubble testing provided again this year thanks to NSW Agriculture & GRDC Protocol 🔽 Steven Simpfendorfer Brad Baxter GRDC North

Check out the 2024 Spatial and Regional Distribution of Stripe Rust in our latest Cereal Rust Report (21_2), including a summary of the 2024 pathotypes identified. If you didn’t receive it, let us know—we’ll send it your way. GRDC GRDC North GRDC South GRDC West GRDC National Variety Trials (NVT)

🎉Happy International Day of Plant Health🎉from all of us at NSW DPIRD! We work hard to help our farmers grow healthy, vigorous & disease free crops! Here are some of the faces from the team & the diseases they fight against!!! Steven Simpfendorfer Brad Baxter Joop van Leur

Triple #fungicideresistance has been detected in #barley on the Yorke Peninsula, SA. Samples of the fungus that causes 'net form #netblotch' have shown resistance to the 3 widely used fungicide groups (Groups 3, 7 and 11). Read more: groundcover.grdc.com.au/grdc/announcem…

🎧PODCAST: cereal disease update with Brad & Simphy. Join us for our first in-crop chat about what is AND what isn’t happening in the paddocks at the mo. LINK⬇️ on.soundcloud.com/s2yAYcnEfrKQjO… GRDC North GRDC GRDC South Steven Simpfendorfer Brad Baxter

AGT launches variety agronomic trait comparative ratings to aid better decision making. AGT have launched a resource that will help farmers and agronomists make even more informed choices when it comes to what varieties to grow. The first of its kind, the publication brings

We’ve been seeing stripe rust for a few weeks now but only very isolated. Looks to be a later developing year so far. Interested to hear if anyone else is seeing any in their travels. Scepter no fert or foliar fungicide in this pic Steven Simpfendorfer

Join Charles Sturt University NSW Agronomy Thursday 2nd October for new cereal phenology, frost and winter wheat physiology PLUS pathology update with Brad Baxter Ben Ovenden! 🌾 Register: Cereal Agronomy & Pathology Field Day eventbrite.com/e/cereal-agron…

forms.office.com/r/q0pYJrkPKL Link above to quick (<5 min) multichoice survey on Fusarium crown rot (FCR) to determine recent changes in understanding and management. Clicking on link and doing survey would be greatly appreciated. Closes Friday 26th September. Thanks heaps! GRDC North

All things cereal with Charles Sturt University NSW Agronomy Thursday 2nd October for new cereal phenology, frost and winter wheat physiology PLUS pathology update with Brad Baxter Ben Ovenden! 🌾 Register: Cereal Agronomy & Pathology Field Day eventbrite.com/e/cereal-agron…

🎧PODCAST: disease update with Brad, Simphy & Kurt. ⛅️Weather impact on disease. 🚜What could be an issue from now till harvest. 🌾Bacterial blight in oats. 🟡Sclerotinia . LINK👇 on.soundcloud.com/hKrKBLA9L9svTR… GRDC North GRDC

NSW Gov plant pathologists are tackling a fungal threat to #barley — Ramularia leaf spot (RLS). GRDC backs work to understand its epidemiology, with Ben Ovenden (NSW Agriculture) running field trials on infected crops for 2 years. NSW DPIRD story 👉 bit.ly/4o9snu1

Got my favourite field day comment after explaining adult plant resistance (APR) last week (photo 1). ‘Yeah, but you are still losing green leaf area with APR!’ 🤔😤Response: then grow a variety with little or no APR (ie susceptible, photo 2). Problem solved. 🤣