The 2026 disease guides for Victoria provide Victorian growers and advisers with current information on field crop diseases in cereals and pulses, including disease management advice, resistance ratings and fungicide resistance considerations for the coming season. Due to the below average rainfall during 2025, there is a reduced potential for disease to [...]
Below is a collection of key resources to help manage grain disease carryover from the 2025 season into 2026 and beyond. These include resources to manage seed and stubble borne diseases. Disease Carryover Between Seasons Published in the 2022, this article provides detail on disease carryover in grain crops covering [...]
Local reports from western Victoria, along with monitoring at research sites, indicate that green peach aphid (GPA) is present as canola crops are sown and emerge this season. While the presence of GPA does not necessarily indicate virus, green peach aphid is a known vector of turnip yellows virus (TuYV) [...]
Crown Rot Update – 2025: Dry Spring Driving Whiteheads in Victorian Cereals Whiteheads due to crown rot, caused by Fusarium pseudograminearum and Fusarium culmorum, have been increasingly observed in Victorian wheat crops during 2025. The dry spring across much of the Wimmera and Mallee has placed crops under moisture stress, [...]
CropAlerts provide timely information for crop diseases to Victorian growers and agronomists. Alerts are sent out via email during the cropping season. To receive these alerts please contact [email protected] Current and historical CropAlerts can be accessed on this page. CropAlerts 2025 2024 2023 [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFjVng55NUU Barley loose smut has been widely reported across the Mallee and Wimmera this season. Affected plants are found with black heads which disperse spores and appear to ‘disintegrate’. This webinar provided an update on the current loose smut situation in Victorian and West Australian barley crops and [...]
Have you seen similar symptoms in your crop this year? Chances are you have barley loose smut in your crop. Barley loose smut has been widely reported across the Mallee and Wimmera this season. Affected plants are found with black heads which disperse spores and appear to ‘disintegrate’. Higher than [...]
Welcome to another episode of the Field Crop Diseases Victoria podcast series. In episode two, Luise caught up with Grant Hollaway to talk about the risk of stripe rust heading in to the 2023 cropping season and what growers can do to manage this risk. You can find the episode [...]
The 2022 growing season has provided a range of challenges for growers and these will continue to have an impact into 2023. Crops that have had severe disease infections are likely to have grain quality impacts and carry disease inoculum into the next cropping season. Considerations for harvest and grain [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RxY1L0tjJM In this video Dr Joshua Fanning describes how the lentil botrytis grey mould nursery in Horsham helps growers manage the disease and the impact that variety ratings can have. This video was recorded in the field during November 2020. Ratings are up to date as of [...]
