Yield-cutting fungus spreads through Wheat Belt

Wheat stripe rust, a fungal disease that can reduce yields by 40 percent, has “swept through fields from Oklahoma to Kansas up into the Dakotas and east into the Great Lakes states,” says DTN. The disease arrived as the winter wheat crop nears harvest; USDA will update its estimate of the crop on Friday. Cool… » Read More

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