In-Season Updates

  • 2020 Cereal Rust Risk Report (Jun 30-Jul 06)

    Since 2019, the Prairie Crop Disease Monitoring Network (PCDMN) has released a series of weekly Cereal Rust Risk Reports throughout May and June.  Read the OVERVIEW describing the collaborative nature of this effort and the methods employed.  Information related to trajectory events based on forecast and diagnostic wind fields and cereal rust risk is experimental, and is offered to the public for informational purposes only. The…

  • Disease Scouting Playing Cards

    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 •…

  • Assessing the risk of stem rot of canola

    Below are 12 practical tips to complement the recent Canola Watch Information (posted July 2, 2020 in Issue 16). Tweeted 25 June 2019 by @PCDMN Factors related TO THE HOST… 1.  Canopy closure: Closure promotes soil moisture favourable to germination of sclerotia and production of apothecia when rainfall occurs. 2.  Flowering date and period: Does flowering…

  • Scouting for cereal diseases: Risk and the need for a fungicide application

    Originally Tweeted June 16, 2019 by @PCDMN 1. As wheat and barley crops progress concerns regarding disease switch from seed and seedling issues to mid-season leaf disease issues.  Scouting is key to identifying emerging leaf disease issues and to assessing the need for an in-crop fungicide. 2. When scouting for weeds, note the presence and…

  • Stripe rust in 2020

    As of July 2, 2020, there have been five reports of the initial appearance of stripe rust on Alberta winter wheat on June 5, 16, 19, and 30, 2020 in the Counties of Lethbridge, Cardston, and Forty-Mile in southern Alberta and in the County of Grande Prairie in the Peace Region of Alberta (except of…