NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) are encouraging chickpea growers to check for Ascochyta Blight, with wet seasons and rising temperatures a contributor to high disease load in some crops. (more…)
New South Wales grain growers are advised to monitor developing winter cereal crops for Russian wheat aphid (RWA) this season, and to consider treatment only if infestations are approaching potentially damaging levels. (more…)
Plant Health Australia’s latest resource for growers is the Exotic Pest Identification and Surveillance Guide for Tropical Horticulture, developed with funding from the Australia Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. (more…)
Tim Bartimote, Local Land Services (LLS) in Dubbo says many grain growers in the Central West region of NSW are keen to see the benefits of integrated weed management tactics demonstrated in their area. (more…)
`Know before you sow’ needs to be a common mantra among New South Wales cereal growers this year if they are to avert costly losses from diseases such as Fusarium crown rot. (more…)
Farmers have been urged to be on the lookout for signs of damage and the presence of fall armyworm larvae in summer crops following the recent trapping of moths in the Lower Namoi. (more…)
