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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. Their use in modern cropping systems form a key component of integrated crop management, and their effectiveness must be sustained as long as possible. Understanding [...]
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 [...]
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 in chickpea and faba bean crops. Analysis of plant roots identified the most common root diseases were root lesion nematode, pythium root rot, charcoal rot, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgnS9EZmNk In this video, Dr. Hari Dadu from Agriculture Victoria walks through an oat plot in a red leather leaf trial and demonstrates the symptoms of red leather leaf early in the season. This video was recorded on 11th August 2020. All information was accurate at the time [...]
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 [...]
