• 2024 Cereal Rust Risk Report (June 25-July 1, 2024)

    The eighth weekly Prairie wind trajectory cereal rust risk report for 2024 is available for download now at the following link: June 25-July 1, 2024, report. As of the week of June 25-July 1, 2024, the overall Prairie cereal rust risk assessment and need for in-crop scouting is as follows: Pacific Northwest – There were…

  • PCDMN Soil Moisture Maps: Risk of stem rot sclerotial germination, June 17-23, 2024

    June and early July are important months in terms of field crop pathogen and disease development for Prairie farmers.  For diseases such as sclerotinia stem rot of canola and ergot of small grain cereals, suitable pathogen development must occur to produce spores before host infection can take place.  The pathogens associated with both diseases overwinter as…