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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