Pests and Disease Program

The Agricultural Services department provide assistance to residents to help manage pests and diseases that could have a negative impact on agriculture and farming operations within the County. Initiatives include:

• Integrated Pest Management - Provide assistance to residents to encourage the use of a variety of methods when dealing with pests and diseases.
• Pest and Disease Inspecting - Yearly monitoring of insect populations, such as grasshoppers, to identify population cycles that may affect crop yields. Yearly monitoring of crops to identify diseases, such as, Fusarium graminearum, Virulent Blackleg, and Clubroot.

There are a number pests and diseases commonly found and looked for in the County. Please check this page often as we continue to update it.

Tree Diseases	Tree Pests
	Forest Tent Caterpillars Mountain Pine Beetle
Canola Crop Diseases	Canola Crop Pests
Alternaria Black Spot Brown Girdling Root Rot Clubroot Grey Stem Sclerotinia Seedling Disease Complex Verticillium Wilt Virulent Blackleg	Aster Yellows Bertha Army Worms Cabbage Root Maggot Cabbage Seedpod Weevil Cutworms Diamondback Moth Flea Beetles Grasshoppers Lygus Bugs Swede Midge
Cereal Crop Diseases	Cereal Crop Pests
Common Cereal Diseases Bacterial Blight Black Point Ergot Leaf Disease Complex Root Rot Rust Complex Smut   Barley Diseases Fusarium Scald Yellow Dwarf   Wheat Diseases Fusarium Head Blight Take-All Root Rot Wheat Streak Mosaic   Oat Diseases

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