General News
16 December, 2022
Disease strategy focus
DISEASE management will be a key focus of Birchip Cropping Group’s trials review day next year. BCG said stripe rust, chocolate spot and grey mould had caused heavy yield losses across large areas of the Wimmera, Mallee and north central. Issues...
DISEASE management will be a key focus of Birchip Cropping Group’s trials review day next year.
BCG said stripe rust, chocolate spot and grey mould had causedheavy yield losses across large areas of the Wimmera, Mallee and north central.
Issues with disease have been two- fold. While the wet weather has provided conducive conditions for stripe rust in wheat, chocolate spot in beans and grey mould in lentils, it has also made management of these diseases difficult with many growers unable to access paddocks to spray or getting bogged in the process.
“With high rainfall and full soil profiles creating a green bridge, spores are likely to carry over to season 2023,” senior manager of extension and communications Kelly Angel said.
“BCG’s trials review day will deliver strategies for growers to support 2023 disease management decisions to optimise production and ultimately, profitability.”
Nutrition, varieties, industry trends and farmer experience will also feature on the program with the latest research delivered to arm farmers with the science required to inform 2023 decisions.
“As a farmer-driven, not for profit, research organisation our event topics are determined by our farmers and supported by a robust research committee. We look forward to presenting our research from the Wimmera, Mallee and North Central regions to our members.
“Trials review day also provides local farmers with access to shared experiences and ground-breaking research from across Australia and further afield as the organisation has done for the past 30-years,” Ms Angel said.