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Farmers on high alert for toxic fungus

<p>THE NSW Department of Primary Industries has alerted farmers to an unusual, early sign of a toxic fungus which causes lupinosis, a disease which can lead to production losses and deaths when livestock graze infected lupin stubble.</p>

Alex Paul
Farmers on high alert for toxic fungus

  DPI plant pathologist Kurt Lindbeck has very early in the season detected a toxin-producing fungus, Diaporthe toxica, commonly called Phomopsis, on green lupin plants. "Lupin crops should be inspected...

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