Features
- Multiple options which allow the user to enter parameters that best reflect their circumstances.
- Determines the likely blackleg crown canker severity, yield loss, and economic return from the parameters entered.
- Can compare different management strategies.
- Updated regularly to incorporate all current canola varieties and their blackleg rating.
- Considers complex interactions that affect the severity of the disease.
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BlacklegCM accounts for the major factors that influence blackleg crown canker severity. The user can specify factors relating to paddock selection, seasonal conditions, prices, and management options so the output relates to their cropping circumstance. The user can also explore their options for disease control and understand the relative importance of each factor.
BlacklegCM helps you to manage blackleg crown canker disease in canola crops in Australia. It can be tuned to account for some of the major factors that relate to risk of yield loss due to blackleg disease in your paddocks during seeding and the early vegetative phase of the crop.
It allows you to compare the likely profitability of different disease management strategies, including paddock selection, variety choice, seed dressing, banded fungicide, and foliar fungicide.
BlacklegCM takes account of costs, yield benefits, grain price, and seasonal conditions to give you the best case, worst case, and most likely estimates of financial return.
BlacklegCM does not account for all factors that can affect blackleg disease, and information provided by this tool is not tailored to the circumstances of any individual farm.
BlacklegCM was designed to complement the UCI BlacklegCM management app, which aids in disease management decisions for blackleg upper canopy infection.
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In the video, Steve Marcroft and Art Diggle discuss Blackleg canker in canola and how to increase the probability of an economic return from fungicide application
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BlacklegCM is part of a suite of disease management tools developed and coded by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) through the National Disease Modelling projects funded by GRDC. This tool was developed in collaboration with Marcroft Grains Pathology, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, South Australian Research and Development Institute, CSIRO, and the University of Melbourne.
BlacklegCM was developed to support the Australian canola industry.