b'Field sampling ultimately moves upstream and benefits pathologists, molecular biologists and plant breeders. Pathologists identify disease and pathogen characteristics which leads to better disease management tools. For plant breeders it helps them to understand how they need to select for future resistant breeding lines, while looking to incorporate various other genes to counteract new or emerging biotic and abiotic stressors.Without that information, how can you make a suitable andWithout that information, effective plan of attack to deal with disease issues either from ahow can you make a suitable research or on-farm perspective? says Turkington.As for Harding, he understands the issue of having a strangerand effective plan of attack walk into your field. He says it would concern him, too. Theto deal with disease issues question you have to ask is what are we possibly going to lose by losing rapid access to fields for crop assurance programs or disease,either from a research or insect or weed surveillance? on-farm perspective? He quickly answers his own question.The ability to obtain high quality information on the status ofKelly Turkingtonthese potential insect, weed and disease issues. Well still be able to generate information, but I dont see how we can generate high quality useful, predictive information when we arent random and representative in our surveillance. I think any producer understands this.Trevor BacqueDurum:Barley:- CDC Vantta - KWS Kellie- AAC Donlow - ESMA- AAC Stronghold - AB Advantage- CDC AustensonWheat:Got yer seed yet? Yup.Got it at- AAC Wheatland VB HRSW Oats:Carls Ag Ventures - AAC Brandon HRSW - CDC Nasser- KWS Sparrow VB GP- Sadash VB SWSW Peas:- AAC Wildfire CWRW - AAC Ardill Yellow- AAC Carver YellowTriticale:- TriCal Surge Spring Flax:- AB Snowcat Winter - CDC Rowland BrownScaleTreatingBlendingBaggingContact: Carl HuvenaarsPhone: 403-654-5094E-mail: [email protected] 114Hays, AlbertaT0K 1B0Spring 2024 13'