Scientists and farmers are warning that without continued research funding, the U.S. will become more vulnerable to the ...

WREC Field Day in Williston, ND, on July 16-17, Dr Andrew Friskop will be presenting an update of the 2025 Small Grain ...

Plant experts note the fungus at the center of the government's case against Chinese lab technicians is not on a USDA list of ...

The Texas agriculture commissioner urged farmers and consumers to be on the lookout for the pest, known as "head blight" or "scab." It attacks corn, barley, wheat, rice and other crops.

Two Chinese researchers were charged with trying to smuggle strains of a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the U.S.

Fusarium graminearum causes a disease called Fusarium head blight that can wipe out cereal crops such as wheat, barley and maize and rice — it inflicts $1 billion in losses annually on U.S. wheat and ...

Fusarium head blight or head scab, is not a common disease found in Oklahoma, but the weather conditions this year made it one of the most prominent diseases found in this wheat crop.

Head scab affects wheat and other small grains and is most common in wheat crops planted after corn crops. Corn residue is a major source of the disease, which poses the biggest threat during high ...

Towards the end of last week and so far this week, I have been in numerous wheat fields all over the state of Ohio ...

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.