Virus Infects Winter Cereal Crops
TWIN FALLS • A major disease threat to winter wheat and barley has appeared in fields across southern Idaho.
Barley yellow dwarf virus “is rampant from Parma to Ririe,” said Juliet Marshall, a University of Idaho Extension cereal pathologist in Idaho Falls. Some growers are killing infected fields and reseeding with other crops.
Source: magicvalley.com
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