Field pea blackspot management guide for Victoria – 4 June 2019

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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 spores 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. Field pea crops should be sown so that the majority of blackspot spores (approximately 60%) have been released prior to the crop emergence.

This prediction is based on DPIRD’s Blackspot Manager model using weather data from 1 January 2019 to 3 June 2019 from the nearest weather station.

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Key to blackspot severity scores

Percentage yield loss (in years) for different levels of blackspot risk scenarios

Blackspot risk

5 out of 10 years

3 out of 10 years

1 out of 10 years

Low

2

5

15

Medium

20

25

35

High

25

30

50

Ballarat

Rainfall to date: 198 mm      Days with significant stubble moisture: 63

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

1

1

1

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow

OK to sow

OK to sow

Blackspot risk

Low

Low

Low

Bendigo

Rainfall to date: 101.8 mm      Days with significant stubble moisture: 49

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

3 to 4

2

1

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow, but disease risk medium

OK to sow

OK to sow

Blackspot risk

Medium

Low

Low

Beulah West (Hopetoun)

Rainfall to date: 81 mm      Days with significant stubble moisture: 30

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

5

5

5

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow, but disease risk high

OK to sow, but disease risk high

Getting late to sow, but disease risk high

Blackspot risk

High

High

High

Charlton

Rainfall to date: 146.6 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 53

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

2

2

1

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow

OK to sow

Getting late to sow

Blackspot risk

Low

Low

Low

Cressy

Rainfall to date: 171.3 mm      Days with significant stubble moisture: 64

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

2

1

1

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow

OK to sow

OK to sow

Blackspot risk

Low

Low

Low

Derrinallum (Leslie Manor)

Rainfall to date: 207 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 67

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

1

1

1

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow

OK to sow

OK to sow

Blackspot risk

Low

Low

Low

Edenhope

Rainfall to date: 125.8 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 58

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

2

2

1

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow

OK to sow

OK to sow

Blackspot risk

Low

Low

Low

Horsham

Rainfall to date: 86 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 38

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

5

5

5

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow, but disease risk high

OK to sow, but disease risk high

OK to sow, but disease risk high

Blackspot risk

High

High

High

Molyullah (Benalla)

Rainfall to date: 174.1 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 78

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

1

1

1

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow

OK to sow

OK to sow

Blackspot risk

Low

Low

Low

Nhill

Rainfall to date: 68 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 42

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

3 to 4

3 to 4

2

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow, but disease risk medium

OK to sow, but disease risk medium

OK to sow

Blackspot risk

Medium

Medium

Low

Quambatook

Rainfall to date: 106.6 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 45

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

5

3 to 4

2

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow, but disease risk high

Getting late to sow, but disease risk medium

Getting late to sow

Blackspot risk

High

Medium

Low

Swan Hill Aerodrome

Rainfall to date: 76.4 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 32

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

5

5

5

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

Ok to sow and disease risk high

ok to sow and disease risk high

Getting late to sow and disease risk high

Blackspot risk

High

High

High

Warracknabeal

Rainfall to date: 94.3 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 41

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

5

5

5

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow, but disease risk high

OK to sow, but disease risk high

OK to sow, but disease risk high

Blackspot risk

High

High

High

Warranooke (Marnoo)

Rainfall to date: 138.8 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 48

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

3 to 4

3 to 4

2

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow, but disease risk medium

OK to sow, but disease risk medium

OK to sow

Blackspot risk

Medium

Medium

Low

Wycheproof

Rainfall to date: 124.1 mm       Days with significant stubble moisture: 46

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

3 to 4

3 to 4

2

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow, but disease risk medium

OK to sow, but disease risk medium

Getting late to sow

Blackspot risk

Medium

Medium

Low

Yatchaw (Hamilton)

Rainfall to date: 163.1 mm        Days with significant stubble moisture: 76

Forecast for crops sown on

3 June

10 June

17 June

Blackspot severity

1

1

1

Sowing guide (based on agronomic suitability)

OK to sow

OK to sow

OK to sow

Blackspot risk

Low

Low

Low

More information

For more information contact Dr Joshua Fanning at at Agriculture Victoria Research on ph +61 (0)3 4344 3335.

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