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- 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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- In the Mallee, insecticides are being applied and, in some parts, a second grass spray application on pulses to clean up any late germinations.
- Nitrogen (N) applications have stalled awaiting a strong forecast of rain which would likely see growers spreading again.
- The Wimmera is focused on broadleaf weed management, insect control and fungicide applications.
- Some are starting to notice effects of moisture stress around tree lines.
- In many areas the potential is there, but further rainfall is required.
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Technical Bulletin No. 16 – 06.11.25
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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