Published - 27 May 2026 By Zoe Tsenalidis, Agriculture Victoria 2026 Cereal and Pulse Disease Guides for Victoria 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 … Read More ascochyta blight, Barley, botytis grey mould, chickpea, disease guides, endemic, faba bean, Field pea, Lentil, lupin, oat, rusts, Statewide, vetch, wheat, yellow dwarf virus Endemic, Endemic Cereal Diseases, Endemic Pulse Diseases
Published - 14 July 2025 By Narelle Nancarrow & Mohammad Aftab (Agriculture Victoria) Turnip yellows virus (TuYV) in irrigated canola, North Central Victoria Season update – 2025 Turnip yellows virus (TuYV) has been reported in irrigated canola crops in North Central Victoria during June 2025. Over the past weeks, Agriculture … Read More canola, chickpea, Clover, faba bean, Field Peas, Forage brassica, Irrigation, Lentil, lupin, Marshmallow, Musk weed, North Central, TuYV, vetch Endemic, Endemic Oilseed Diseases, Endemic Pulse Diseases
Published - 2 May 2025 By Joshua Fanning (Agriculture Victoria) Blackspot Manager for field peas View the latest Blackspot Manager forecast for Victoria. Field Pea Blackspot Manager is a forecasting model for ascochyta blight (synonym: blackspot) of field peas. It can … Read More Blackspot, Field pea, Forecast, Pulse, Victoria Endemic, Endemic Pulse Diseases, Resources
Published - 23 April 2025 By Field Crop Diseases Victoria CropAlert – Crop Disease Updates 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 … Read More ascochyta blight, Barley, canola, Cereals, chickpea, CropAlert, disease guides, Fungicide, Green bridge, Lentil, lupin, Oats, Pulses, Statewide, stripe rust, vetch, wheat, Wimmera Endemic, Endemic Cereal Diseases, Endemic Oilseed Diseases, Endemic Pulse Diseases
Published - 3 August 2020 By Luise Fanning (Agriculture Victoria) Fungicide resistance – Back to basics The treatment of fungal plant pathogens through the use of fungicide applications is and will remain essential for maintaining healthy crops and reliable high-quality yields. … Read More fungicide resistance, Statewide Endemic, Endemic Cereal Diseases, Endemic Oilseed Diseases, Endemic Pulse Diseases
Published - 21 September 2022 By Joshua Fanning (Agriculture Victoria) and Kurt Lindbeck (NSW DPI) Sclerotinia in Victorian Pulses Sclerotinia white mould (SWM) is a damaging disease that can infect many pulse crops including lentil, chickpea, faba bean, vetch, field pea and lupin. It … Read More canola, chickpea, faba bean, Lentil, lupin, sclerotinia white mould, vetch Endemic, Endemic Pulse Diseases
Published - 24 February 2021 By Jemma Pearl (Agriculture Victoria) Episode 1: 2020 in review and looking at the year ahead Welcome to the first episode of the new Field Crop Diseases Victoria podcast series. We hope you enjoy. In episode one, Jemma Pearl caught up with … Read More Podcast Endemic, Endemic Cereal Diseases, Endemic Oilseed Diseases, Endemic Pulse Diseases, Exotic, Exotic Cereal Diseases, Exotic Oilseed Diseases, Exotic Pulse Diseases
Published - 30 August 2021 By Joshua Fanning (Agriculture Victoria) Screening Lentils for Botrytis Grey Mould 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 … Read More BGM, botrytis grey mould, Lentil, Statewide Endemic, Endemic Pulse Diseases
Published - 13 August 2020 By Jon Baker and Joshua Fanning (Agriculture Victoria) Soil-borne diseases in Victorian Pulse and Oilseed crops Soil-borne diseases are of increasing importance in pulse and oilseed crops. During 2019, a survey of 67 crops by Agriculture Victoria showed severe root damage … Read More Mallee, Soil-borne disease, Statewide, Wimmera Endemic, Endemic Oilseed Diseases, Endemic Pulse Diseases
Published - 20 April 2021 By Field Crop Diseases Victoria Latest in Victorian Pulse, Cereal & Oilseed diseases – 2021 GRDC Update Papers The following papers were presented at the GRDC Updates in Bendigo in February 2021. This article includes a summary of key points from each paper, … Read More ascochyta blight, Barley, blackleg, BlacklegCM app, canola, chickpea, Crown canker, didymella, faba bean, fusarium, GRDC, Net form of net blotch, NFNB, Oats, phoma, Red leather leaf, Root disease, SFNB, spot form of net blotch, Statewide, stripe rust, StripRustWM app, vetch, wheat Endemic, Endemic Cereal Diseases, Endemic Oilseed Diseases, Endemic Pulse Diseases
Published - 29 April 2021 By Joshua Fanning (Agriculture Victoria) Improving Field Screening Methods for Chickpea Ascochyta Blight In this video, Dr. Joshua Fanning describes the methods that have been used in Horsham to develop high throughput field phenotyping of chickpea plants for … Read More AB, ascochyta blight, Ascochyta rabiei, chickpea, Didymella rabiei, Phoma rabiei, Statewide, Video, Wimmera Endemic, Endemic Pulse Diseases
Published - 3 May 2024 By Joshua Fanning, Chloe Findley and Dharushana Thanabalasingam (Agriculture Victoria) Fungicide options in Pulses To protect pulses, there are several registered fungicides available with varying efficacy and use patterns. When selecting products, it is important to consider products within … Read More AFREN, APVMA, Ascochta, Beans, Biosecurity, Botrytis, Broad beans, Cercospora, chickpea, faba bean, Field pea, GRDC, IPDM, Lentil, Rust Sclerotinia, vetch, Victoria Endemic, Endemic Pulse Diseases
