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Technical Bulletin No. 13 – 25.09.25
What's happening:
- Insect activity is increasing under favourable conditions, though few cases have reached economic thresholds for control.
- Low levels of stripe rust are being detected across Western Victoria, however growers with robust programs that included fungicide at sowing are reporting little to no evidence of foliar disease.
- Low GSR deciles, frosts in early September and favourable prices have growers considering cutting crops for hay instead of harvesting for grain.
- Preparations for harvest are underway.
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Technical Bulletin No. 12 – 12.09.25
What's happening:
- Recent rainfall has kept growers busy applying nitrogen, fungicides, herbicides and insecticides.
- Low levels of stripe rust have been detected in the Mallee. Low levels of scald and spot form of net blotch in barley in the Wimmera and low levels of Septoria in wheat in the Wimmera and Mallee.
- In the Mallee, the window for nitrogen applications to boost yield is closing as cereal crops move into ear emergence. In the Wimmera, cereals range from late tillering through to stem elongation and flag leaf emergence, while canola is at early flowering in many districts.
- Low levels of insect activity are also being reported, including locusts in the Mallee, lucerne flea and redlegged earth mite (RLEM) in the Wimmera, cowpea aphids and blue green aphids in vetch, and lucerne leaf roller, RLEM and cowpea aphids in the North Central region.
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Technical Bulletin No. 11 – 29.08.25
What's happening:
- Recent rainfall across the region has provided a welcome boost to yield potential for 2025.
- Growers are finalising winter weed control programs.
- Cereal crops currently range from mid tillering to early stem elongation.
- Reports of stripe rust around Boort and Nullawil
- The BioScout unit installed at the BCG Main Site, Birchip has detected low levels of rust spores (see below).
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Technical Bulletin No. 2 28.4.2023
- Stubble burning used as a last resort to allow for sowing.
- Canola crops are being sown or are already emerging in some regions.
- Slug and snail management continuing.
- Mice in localised areas requiring management.
- Crop nutrition budgets are being developed from soil test results and yield expectations.
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Technical Bulletin No 11. 08.10.2021
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Technical Bulletin – 31 May 2016
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Technical Bulletin No. 10 – 15.08.25
What's happening:
- Cereals are progressing from late tillering through to GS32 (second node), with stronger canopy development following recent moisture.
- Canola ranges from cabbaging to bud elongation, with some early-sown paddocks now reaching early flowering.
- Pest activity remains on the radar; Lucerne flea is being reported widely across the Wimmera–Mallee, Red-legged Earth Mite pressure is present in parts of the North Central and Wimmera and evidence of mouse damage has been observed in several Wimmera paddocks, highlighting the need for ongoing monitoring.
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Technical Bulletin – 1 SEPTEMBER 2016
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