Saskatchewan Crop Disease Coordination Demonstrator: A Practical Framework for Managing Clubroot in Canola and FHB / Mycotoxin Risk in Wheat

Crop disease impacts in Saskatchewan increasingly arise from coordination failures rather than gaps in agronomic knowledge. Diseases such as clubroot in canola and Fusarium head blight (FHB) with associated mycotoxin risk in wheat require aligned monitoring, decision-making, and response across producers, agronomists, diagnostics, input suppliers, processors, and downstream market actors. This preprint introduces the Saskatchewan Crop Disease Coordination Demonstrator, a practical, minimal-burden framework designed using Inevitability by Design (IbD) principles. The demonstrator translates existing surveillance, agronomic guidance, and risk models into a shared coordination layer built around standardized monitoring, simple decision triggers, role-specific response playbooks, and season-end learning loops. The objective is not to introduce new regulation or enforcement, but to make effective disease management the path of least resistance for all participants. Participation is voluntary, producer-safe, and anonymized by default. Data requirements are minimal, governance is lightweight, and learning is non-punitive. The initial demonstrator focuses on: Clubroot in canola, where long soil persistence and equipment-mediated spread demand regional awareness and consistent containment norms; and FHB and mycotoxin (DON) risk in wheat, where weather-driven risk windows, harvest decisions, and grain quality pathways must be aligned to avoid avoidable loss. The framework is explicitly designed as a demonstrator, not a permanent program. Its purpose is to validate whether coordination improvements can be achieved quickly, credibly, and at low cost, before any expansion to additional diseases or regions. This artifact is intended for producers, agronomists, industry partners, researchers, and public-sector observers interested in practical coordination solutions that improve crop resilience, market confidence, and long-term system performance without increasing administrative burden.