A new wheat variety released by Oklahoma State University will help eastern and northern Oklahoma farmers combat the small grain fungal disease fusarium head blight, also known as head scab. “It’s not ...

As we start to reach flowering in wheat, it is the time to spray fungicides to protect wheat from Fusarium Head Blight (scab). But, the forecasted risk for scab remains low for the region, said Darcy ...

Figure 1. A- Wheat strip rust, B-Septoria leaf spot, and C-Fusarium head blight. Photo credits: PPDL Samples can always be submitted to the Purdue Plant Pest Diagnostic Lab for disease identification ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Untimely rainfall has led to an epidemic of a toxic fungal disease in some fields of winter wheat, reducing yields and quality just as harvest gets under way in the nation's ...

Typical premature whitening of a wheat head infected with the fungus that causes Fusarium head blight. (USDA Agricultural Research Service photo) Scientists and farmers are warning that without ...

Roseau, Minnesota, farmer Richard Magnusson remembers all too well the year 1993, when his fields of wheat became so infected with Fusarium head blight that the best thing to do was set fire to the ...

Scientists and farmers are warning that without continued research funding, the U.S. will become more vulnerable to the devastating impacts of fusarium head blight, or scab, in wheat and barley. This ...

ROLLA, N.D. - Doyle Lentz knows all too well how much damage scab can do to small grains. Now, he’s a national leader in the fight against the devastating crop disease. “It first affected my farm in ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Most wheat and barley producing states have dodged a grain-withering fungus this year, plant pathologists and producers say. Fusarium head blight — commonly known as scab — was ...

On May 16, wheat growers and industry professionals gathered for the annual Lahoma Wheat Field Day, held at the Oklahoma State University North Central Research Station in Lahoma, Oklahoma. Attendees ...