Farmers are busy working on putting this year’s crop in the ground and with the increasing spread of disease, farmers today have to be more conscious of biosecurity issues on the farm.

Allie Noble, a crops intern with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Agriculture explains.

"With soil born diseases like aphanomyces, root rot, and clubroot being identified in the province we've been growing herbicide-resistant population," she said. "It's important that we are taking some factor of biosecurity in when we are in the field because that helps to prevent the spread."

Farmers may want to consider cleaning equipment between fields, by scraping or brushing soil off the implement, to power washing and disinfecting apparatus in high-risk areas for Clubroot.

Noble talked about some other biosecurity measures that farmers can use:

"Restricting access to the field, using a different entry and exit to your field, getting a seed analyst done prior to purchase you know that your seed is clean," she said. "Going into the field and parking on the roads and not on the field entrances can also help."

Biosecurity is a series of management practices that farmers use to prevent, minimize and control the introduction of plant pests in the field.