Field pea blackspot management guide for New South Wales - 26 April 2021

Page last updated: Wednesday, 28 April 2021 - 7:55am

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Field Pea Blackspot Management Guide is a location and season specific weekly forecast. It accounts for varietal resistance and chemical options, agronomic yield potentials, agronomic constraints (frost and terminal drought), risks of spore showers, disease severity, and disease related yield loss. It then weighs agronomic yield loss and disease yield loss and suggests a window of sowing dates.

This prediction is based on DPIRD's Blackspot Manager model using weather data from 1 January 2021 to 25 April 2021 from the nearest weather station.

You may notice weather station changes for one location, this is to ensure that the weather data being used is the most accurate available for the area, and can be influenced by BOM locations. The location that has changed is Wagga Ag Institute which now is Wagga Wagga AMO.

Sowing time can depend on a range of factors and it is recommended to consult an agronomist to determine the optimal sowing window for your situation.

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Key to blackspot severity scores

The aim is to delay sowing of field pea crops, where agronomically possible, until the majority of blackspot spores (approximately 60%) have been released prior to the crop emergence. This strategy reduces yield losses from blackspot.

Blackspot risk

Spores released (%)

Range of yield loss for different levels of blackspot risk (%)

Low

60 - 100

2 - 15

Medium

30 - 59

20 - 35

High

0 - 29

25 - 50

Cootamundra

Rainfall to date: 301.8 mm     Days with significant stubble moisture: 58

Forecast for crops sown on

25 Apr

2 May

9 May

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

Too early to sow before the 20th May

Too early to sow before the 20th May

Too early to sow before the 20th May

Blackspot risk

Low

Low

Low

Forbes

Rainfall to date: 437.8 mm     Days with significant stubble moisture: 61

Forecast for crops sown on

25 Apr

2 May

9 May

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

Too early to sow before the 13th May

Too early to sow before the 13th May

Too early to sow before the 13th May

Blackspot risk

Low

Low

Low

Griffith

Rainfall to date: 154.2 mm     Days with significant stubble moisture: 37

Forecast for crops sown on

25 Apr

2 May

9 May

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

Too early to sow before the 5th May

Too early to sow before the 5th May

Marginally too early to sow - 5th May to 12th May

Blackspot risk

High

Medium

Medium

Temora

Rainfall to date: 313.5 mm      Days with significant stubble moisture: 51

Forecast for crops sown on

25 Apr

2 May

9 May

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

Too early to sow before the 13th May

Too early to sow before the 13th May

Too early to sow before the 13th May

Blackspot risk

Medium

Low

Low

Wagga Wagga AMO

Rainfall to date: 322.2 mm     Days with significant stubble moisture: 46

Forecast for crops sown on

25 Apr

2 May

9 May

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

Too early to sow before the 20th May

Too early to sow before the 20th May

Too early to sow before the 20th May

Blackspot risk

Medium

Low

Low

More information

For more information contact Dr Kurt Lindbeck at NSW DPI on ph +61 (0)2 6938 1608.

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Author

Janette Pratt

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