High risk alert

Victorian field-pea growers can sign up to get SMS alerts when field-pea disease risk is high.

The Blackspot Manager alert service uses rain data to predict when spores are released in each district.

This allows growers to identify the best balance between fungicide management, sowing time and potential yield loss.

Information on the Blackspot Manager website is updated every two weeks from April through to June.

Farmers keen to sign up for the SMS alert service can text BLACKSPOT, their name and their nearest weather station or location to 0475 959 932.

The service is also available via email. Farmers can email their name and nearest weather station or location to Blackspot Manager@agric.wa.gov.au.

More information is available from the GRDC Field Crop Diseases extension website communities.grdc.com.au.