Planting soybean early on the North coast.

Listen to NSW DPI's Toni Petronaitis talk us through how your harvest management can affect crown rot growth
     -Impacts of stubble height on disease growth.
     -Climatic conditions that favour disease growth in stubble.
     -Rate of disease growth (this might surprise you!)

Steve Simpfendorfer & Brad Baxter give us a end-of-season disease wrap up.
     -Stripe rust (yes, it's still about!).
     -Crown rot.
     -Ramularia in barley.
     -Other 2023 diseases.

What's happening out there at the moment with cereal diseases?
    -How can you limit disease impacts for 2024?
    -Simphy and Brad, plant pathologists from NSW DPI, give us a rundown.

NSW DPI's plant pathologists, Brad Baxter & Steve Simpfendorfer, have a chat about what happening in cereal crops at the moment. Diseases that are appearing & how to control them, along with ones that may become an issue in 2023.

NSW DPI's Steve Simpfendorfer and Brad Baxter have a chat about what diseases could be the main 'nasties' in 2023.
-How to minimise the loss for these diseases pre-season.
-How to know if you have a problem.
-The do's and don't for 2023.

NSW DPI's Steve Simpfendorfer and Col McMaster give us a rundown on the importance of good quality planting seed.
Sourcing quality planting seed could be a challenge this year after the sagas of 2022
We cover:
-what constitutes good quality planting seed
-what diseases can be seed borne
-how you can test your seed.

In this podcast with Amanda Thomas, Regional Extension Officer, CottonInfo, we chat about all things off-target spray drift:
-how big is the problem
-why its so bad this year
-who's responsible
-tips for avoidance
-new technology that can help
....along with the Christmas turkey & voodoo dolls!

spray drift

NSW DPI's plant pathologist, Kurt Lindbeck gives us a rundown in mould in canola:

-What's causing the problem?
-Are the moulds toxic?
-What could I have done to prevent it?
-How can I avoid it next year? 

Brad Baxter and Steve Simpfendorfer, NSW DPI's cereal pathologists, join us for a podcast to help dispel some of the urban myths around stripe rust in 2022.
-Did you spray at the right time?
-What has happened with pathotypes this year?
-Is disease resistance breaking down?

Nathan Ensbey, technical officer with NSW DPI based at Grafton, talks us through the trial work being done into early planting of soybean.

-Why you would do it
-What varieties are suited to an earlier plant
-Some tips to get it right.

NSW DPI's plant pathologist Kurt Lindbeck, gives an update on:
-What is happening in the paddock with canola and pulse crops.
-Is it too late for fungicides to be effective in canola?
-Upper canopy blackleg and late season sclerotinia in canola.
-What nasties are raising their heads in pulse crops.