Features
- Multiple options which allow the user to enter parameters that best reflect their circumstances.
- Determines the likely yellow leaf spot severity, yield loss, and economic return from the parameters entered.
- Provides yellow leaf spot resistance ratings for all current wheat varieties.
- Considers complex interactions that affect the disease.
- Compares different management strategies.
- The user can email a paddock report to another party, like a grower or farm consultant.
- Alternate views of predicted results to suit the user’s preference.
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About the app
YellowSpotWM is a decision support tool that assists growers and consultants in determining the best management strategy to reduce yellow leaf spot (tan spot) disease in wheat and increase profits.
YellowSpotWM accounts for the major factors that influence yellow leaf spot severity.
The user can specify factors relating to paddock selection, variety, seasonal conditions, prices, and management options so the output relates to their cropping circumstance. The user can explore their options for disease control and understand the relative importance of each factor.
YellowSpotWM helps you to manage yellow leaf spot disease in wheat crops in Australia. YellowSpotWM can be tuned to account for some of the major factors that relate to risk of yield loss due to yellow leaf spot disease in your paddocks.
It allows you to compare the likely profitability of different disease management strategies, including paddock selection, variety choice, in-furrow fungicide, and foliar fungicide.
YellowSpotWM take account of cost, yield benefits, grain price and seasonal conditions to give you the best case, worst case, and most likely estimates of financial return.
The app does not account for all the factors that can affect yellow leaf spot disease, and information provided by this tool is not tailored to the circumstances of any farm.
YellowSpotWM complements the StripeRustWM app, which aids in stripe rust disease management decisions in wheat.
Managing yellow leaf spot disease in wheat and the YellowSpotWM decision support tool
In this video, Geoff Thomas (DPIRD) and Anna Hepworth (DPIRD) discuss Yellow leaf spot disease in wheat and how to increase the probability of an economic return from fungicide application.
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YellowSpotWM 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 the GRDC. This tool was developed and tested in collaboration with Agriculture Victoria and Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.
YellowSpotWM was developed to support the Australian wheat industry.