Category Archives: wheat

Black Soil Scarab Damage to Winter Cereals

By admin | Published: October 25, 2010
This winter we’ve seen several instances of severe scarab damage to winter cereals (wheat, barley and oats) , including on crops at Jandowae and Felton on the Darling Downs. The photograph below shows that severe damage is mostly confined to areas of paddocks which were previously pasture – and this is where the highest scarab [...]
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Cereal Aphids in wheat and barley Spring 2008

By admin | Published: September 25, 2008
Cereal aphid numbers have increased rapidly over the past 3 weeks as the temperatures have increased. Whilst low numbers of aphids have been present in many crops (wheat and barley) for some time, it was not until a couple of weeks ago that numbers reached levels of concern to agronomists and growers. Until the last [...]
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