PHOTO: Following wet weather, conditions are perfect for the stripe rust infection to thrive. (Supplied)
Tottenham, Gilgandra and Coonamble will be trial sites to generate an early warning system for stripe rust in crops as reports of the infections are expected to increase across the region.
Ongoing rain and the survival of significant green bridge over summer have created conditions for stripe rust to thrive across local crops, but farmers and agronomists are still at a loss to identifying the disease ‘pathotype’ without lengthy lab investigations.
This season, Grain Orana Alliance (GOA) are conducting trials to determined if they can serve as an early warning system for growers to help indicate dominant stripe rust pathotypes in different cropping areas…