Tag: wheat streak mosaic
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Wheat Plot Tour 2025
The Walnut Creek Extension District will host the Wheat Variety Plot Tours on Thursday, May 29, 2025 starting in Rush County at 9:30 am. Presenting at the tours will be KSRE Agronomist, Dr. Romulo Lollato and K-State Plant Pathologist, Kelsey Anderson-Onofre. The Rush County plot cooperator is Mark Baus and there are 20 different varieties. It is…
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Wheat Fields Turning Yellow
By Vance Ehmke If being $2/bushel below cost of production isn’t enough, now Kansas wheat farmers have what could be a very serious disease problem on their hands with wheat streak mosaic as well as Triticum mosaic virus. In worst cases, entire fields may be lost. Dennis McNinch who farms in northern Ness County says…