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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 can also affect canola, pasture legumes and many weeds. This disease poses its greatest risk during seasons with prolonged damp conditions. Sclerotinia white mould has [...]
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, click on the title to find the full text. Cereal disease update 2021 Authors: Mark McLean, Grant Hollaway and Hari Dadu (Agriculture Victoria), Robert Park [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNrX-3FDguM 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 ascochyta blight resistance. This video was filmed during November 2020. All information was accurate at the time of recording. Transcript - Improving [...]
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 [...]
The following papers were presented at the GRDC Updates in Bendigo in February 2020. This article includes a summary of key points from each paper, click on the title to find the full text. Cereal Disease Update 2020 Authors: Grant Hollaway and Mark McLean (Agriculture Victoria, Horsham), Hugh Wallwork (South [...]
