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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 […]

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, […]

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 Victoria staff have tested plant samples from six irrigated canola crops from the region, and high incidences of TuYV (79-100%) were detected. The […]

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 be used by agronomists and growers to help identify the best balance between early sowing and potential yield loss from ascochyta blight, or to […]

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   2022   2021   […]

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 an integrated disease management (IDM) strategy (see below), the potential of the disease-causing pathogen to develop fungicide resistance, and the overall crop profitability. Remember that […]

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 what the best […]

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 […]

The Victorian pulse and cereal disease guides provide the latest information on disease management and disease resistance ratings. 2023 Disease Management – Pulses There will be a high risk of disease carryover into the 2023 season from infected seed and stubble of crops that had high disease levels in 2022. […]

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 […]