Disease Scouting Playing Cards, including key symptoms and management strategies for a number of field crop diseases, have been created by the @PCDMN.
Free downloadable PDF versions of the following playing cards are available by linking to the Scouting Tips & Calendar page!
Wheat
• Speckled leaf blotch
• Parastagonospora/Septoria leaf and glume blotch
• Tan spot
Barley
• Net-form net blotch
• Spot-form net blotch
• Scald
• Spot blotch
Pulses
• Ascochyta of chickpea
• Ascochyta/Mycosphaerella of field pea
Canola
• Blackleg (TBA)
• Sclerotinia stem rot (TBA)
Acknowledgements
• The Prairie Crop Disease Monitoring Network gratefully acknowledges the assistance of summer students Kathleen McHugh and Danielle Beaudoin-Kwan, and fellow plant pathologists, Michelle Hubbard, Syama Chatterton, and Robyn Davidson for their suggestions, input, etc.