Prospects for controlling diseases in forage seed production appear bright because of the opportunities for effectively combining cultural methods with disease resistance and with chemical treatments of seed, plants, and soil. Successful control of several grass diseases in Oregon by inexpensive cultural methods is significant because the usual measures for controlling plant diseases, i.e., resistant varieties and practical fungicide treatments, were not available for most forage diseases. However, some of the fungicides that have performed poorly against forage-crop diseases might still be useful if applied in combination with sanitation methods. Newer chemicals appear to be promising for combatting some diseases that are difficult to control by conventional methods. Since resistant varieties of plants lose their value as new races of pathogens develop, the use of sanitation methods combined with chemical treatments should extend the useful life of resistant varieties because these treatments are generally effective against all races of pathogens.