Coordination of a crop disease monitoring network for Western Canada
Lead Investigator(s)
Dr. Kelly Turkington
Lead Investigator(s) Institution
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Objective
To establish a Prairie Crop Disease Monitoring Network that integrates existing disease monitoring and surveillance and reporting activities into an overall monitoring initiative for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba; to develop protocols for scientific-based cereal disease surveys, and protocols for producer or consultant scouting-focused protocols for cereal diseases; to develop weekly or biweekly forecasts of potential movement of cereal rust spores from the USA into the prairie region; to facilitate the development of GIS mapping capacity for disease surveillance results; to assist non-cluster collaborators with training and resources to ensure sufficient expertise and capacity exist for adequate annual surveillance activities by a range of stakeholders.
Agronomy
SPG Contribution
$3,000.00
Project Status
Active
Duration/Timeline of Project (Year to Year)
2018 - 2023
Co-funders
Integrated Crop Agronomy Cluster