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NSW DPIRD works hand-in-hand with farmers being the largest rural research provider in Australia. The aim of these podcasts is to deliver timely and relevant information to help growers and industry better manage and understand challenges to their farming systems.Bringing you the latest research and developments in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and biosecurity in NSW
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Rutherglen bugs: from the trenches to your crops...... Hear what NSW DPIRD's Zorica Duric & CSIRO's Hazel Parry have to say about: - -Why they are a problem this year. -How to monitor. -Control options
Seasonal disease update with the NSW DPIRD plant pathology lads. -what to do from now till the end of the year with disease. -Stripe rust happenings. -Sclerotinia in canola & pulses. -Bacterial blight and crown rust & harvest Are YOU guilty of recreational spraying?????
🎧 PODCAST: Cereal disease update with Steve Simpfendorfer 🎧 Join us for the latest chat with Simphy on what is happening with cereal diseases in the central and northern regions of NSW. -Stripe rust: yes its about. What varieties are a concern, disease basics & how to manage it from now till harvest -Crown rot, leaf rust, yellow leaf spot etc. -Barley: lots of net form net blotch and some loose smut. -AND Ascochyta blight found in chickpeas in the last week.
They’re back. The NSW DPIRD ‘dynamic duo’ of Brad Baxter and Steve Simpfendorfer join us for the first in-crop disease podcast. •The impact of climate on crops: of the samples received in the north this season, 68% were NOT DISEASE. •Cereal disease update & what might be a problem for the rest of the season. •Frequent questions being asked from the paddock. •No stripe rust to report at yet.
Listen to NSW DPIRD's sorghum expert Loretta Serafin discuss the on-farm research conducted in NW NSW over the last ~ 5 years by her team on agronomic tweaks for sorghum yield improvement. Setting your paddock up for success.Optimising planting time & the place of early planting.Choosing the most suitable row spacings for your region.Getting nutrition right.Hybrid selection.
We talk to NSW DPIRD's aphid & virus experts, Joop van Leur, Zorica Duric & Solomon Maina on: -Viruses: the basics & why they mutate & how they are transmitted. -Aphids: which ones are an issue to us in winter cropping. -Insecticide resistance. -Management options.
Listen to NSW DPIRD's Kurt Lindback & Marcrofts Grains Pathology, Steve Marcroft talk all things blackleg in canola: -disease life cycle -seedling versus upper canopy infection -how to know the risk in your paddock -varietal resistance. The differences & how & why this changes -when to use & not to use fungicides -fungicide resistance.
Listen to NSW DPIRD's 'dynamic duo', Steve Simpfendorfer and Brad Baxter discuss: What we learnt in 2024 and disease legacy effects for 2025.What's showing up in the stubble testing from this summer.What diseases could be an issue this season.Management tips.
Introducing some of NSW DPIRD's young researchers and the projects they are looking into: Nicole Dron: Heat tolerance in pulses.Grain protein in pulses, why does it matter?Intergrated disease management (IDM) in in faba bean.Nitrogen fixation.Sam Blanch: Charcoal rot in summer crops.Net form net blotch in barley.Mitch Clifton: Long coleoptile wheats.
🎧 PODCAST: Cereal disease update 🎧 NSW DPIRD's Brad Baxter, Steve Simpfendorfer and Sam Blanch chat with us re: -Cereal disease update & what might be a problem for the rest of the season. -Frequent questions they are being asked. -Fungicides & the kick-back period. -Stripe rust & adult plant resistance (APR) & how it works. -Net form net blotch (NFNB) research.
How to manage diseases in your canola from now till harvest. NSW DPIRD's Kurt Lindbeck gives us some tips on: -Knowing your crop's disease risk from now till maturity. -Some key aspects of sclerotinia & blackleg's life cycle that can influence your decision to spray or not. -Real life scenarios from the paddock & management options.
Growing sorghum in 2024? Tips for getting it right with NSW DPI's Loretta Serafin. NSW DPI's Research Agronomist Loretta Serafin chats with us about grain sorghum. Recent research into: -Row spacing -Planting times -Nutrition And how to 'build the package' to maximise your sorghum yields in the coming season. Show more
NSW DPI's plant pathologists, Steve Simpfendorfer & Joop van Leur, talks us through diseases and viruses showing up in paddocks: Is it really disease?Septoria: 'the most mis-diagnosed disease of 2024". What it looks like, what it's lifecycle is.The difference between yellow leaf spot and septoria.Virus in canola, what the story?Correct use of fungicides.
NSW DPI's plant pathologist, Kurt Lindbeck, talks us through the diseases of faba bean: -What diseases are dominant in the north versus the south. -Threats in 2024. -Conditions favouring diseases. -Management strategies. Want more info? Head to: "Managing diseases of faba bean 2024" www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/p…ean-in-2024.pdf
Join NSW DPI's plant pathologists Steve Simpfendorfer and Brad Baxter and entomologist Zorica Duric with an update on: -What diseases have been identified so far in 2024. -Is it a disease or is it weather or herbicide related or a combination of the above? -Correct fungicide timing. -Aphids: what species are about & how to manage them.
NSW DPI's Brad Baxter & Steve Simpfendorfer talk us through: -How the season is shaping up. -What diseases could be an issue in 2024. -What diseases are out there already. -How to mitigate for these. -What the 2023 Rust Reports from Sydney University have taught us. ....and Brad's lack of chocolate consumption over Easter......
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. ...
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.
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