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Crop Disease Podcast

Constantly dealing with disease outbreaks on your paddock? Sprayed a fungicide lately that just didn’t seem to work? Or perhaps trying to catch up on some agronomy while on the move? Join Megan Jones from the Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) as she interviews researchers, growers and agronomists on all things crop disease from across the Australian grain growing region. The CCDM is a national research centre co-supported by Curtin University and the Grains Research and Development Corporation.

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Crop Disease Podcast

The next seasonal update from around Australia on crop and agronomy issues

August 24, 2022 • CCDM

We’re now getting towards the end of the 2022 season, and there’s been quite a bit of rain around the country. But with rain comes crop disease, and we’re seeing a number of disease management issues popping up everywhere.

Along with CCDM’s Mark Gibberd, join Megan Jones as she speaks to three agronomists and a pathologist, to find out the current issues of the season and the next management strategy to think about. We'll hear from:

· Steven Simpfendorfer, Tamworth Agricultural Institute, NSW about stripe rust and trusting in adult plant resistance in varieties, and the risk of a leaf rust epidemic.

· Greg Toomey, Nutrien Elmore, VIC, about the diseases growers are dealing with and the next steps in nitrogen management for the season to continue on its trajectory.

· Sam Holmes, Central Ag Solutions, Yorke Peninsula, SA, about a mixture of diseases, with cereal disease powdery mildew, septoria tritici blotch and net blotches causing some concern.

· Dan Talyor, DKT Rural Agencies, Central Wheatbelt, about how the wheat powdery mildew he mentioned in the first update has progressed to concerning levels.

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