Pests, diseases and disorders in field crops
Adopting industry best practices for pest and disease management remains a key means of protecting yield and optimising growing costs. A range of tactics is required to reduce pest populations and protect against disease.
Insects of crops and pastures
General disorders of crops
Summer crops pests and diseases
- Boil smut of corn
- Fusarium cob rot of corn
- Managing northern leaf blight in sweet corn (Primefact 235)
- Rice crop protection guide
- Silverleaf whitefly alert for soybean growers
- Weed control in summer crops
Winter crops - Wheat barley and other cereals
- Cereal diseases after drought
- Cereal diseases: the Ute Guide (book)
- Colour banding on cereal seedlings
- Exotic Pest Alert: Identification of Russian Wheat Aphid and associated crop damage
- Illustration of downy mildew of oats
- Illustration of loose smut in oats
- Root and crown diseases of wheat and barley in northern NSW
- Stripe rust - an update on the Yr17 pathotype
- Podcast - Stripe rust update
8.1 MB - Stripe rust: understanding the disease in wheat
- Weed control in winter crops 2012
Winter crops - Canola
- Canola and pulse diseases after drought
- Clubroot of canola and mustard
- Diseases of canola and their management - Canola guide, Ch. 10 (www.grdc.com.au)
(includes information on Blackleg and Sclerotinia) - Mouse damage in canola crops
- Virus diseases in canola and mustard
Winter crops - Lupins, chickpeas and other pulses
- Cucumber mosaic virus in lupins (Pulse point 18 - Feb 2003)
- Foliar diseases of faba beans: management in southern NSW (Pulse point 16 - Jul 2002)
- Managing pea weevil (Pulse point 04 - Jan 2005)
- Phytophthora root rot of lupins (Pulse point 17 - Jan 2002)
- Powdery mildew in field peas (Pulse point 14 - Dec 2003)
- Reducing disease risk (Pulse point 07 - May 1999)
- Strategies to minimise bacterial blight in field peas (Pulse point 13 - Apr 2001)
From the bookshop
- Cereal diseases: the Ute Guide (book)
- Chickpea disorders: the Ute Guide (book)
- Crop insects - northern grain belt: the Ute Guide (book)
- Field crop herbicide injury: the Ute Guide (book)
- Insects - southern region: the Ute Guide (book)
- Lucerne pests and disorders: the Ute Guide (book)
- Maize disorders: the Ute Guide (book)
- Mungbean & soybean disorders: the Ute Guide (book)
- Sorghum disorders: the Ute Guide (book)
- Sunflower disorders: the Ute Guide (book)
- The good bug book
- Winter cereal nutrition: the Ute Guide (nutrition disorders) (book)
- Winter pulse disorders: the Ute Guide (book)
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Laboratory services
- Laboratory testing services
Tests are available for plant nutrition, chemical residues, and insect and plant pathogen identifications.