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Fusarium Head Blight a Minimal Issue in 2012

The abnormally dry conditions that prevailed across numerous U.S. states during the 2012 small grains growing season resulted in many disappointing yields. But the dry weather simultaneously brought at least one beneficial effect: minimal problems with Fusarium Head Blight (scab) and vomitoxin (DON). Very few areas had significant issues with this disease in 2012..

A recent survey by the U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative (USWBSI) of university small grains specialists in several states tells the 2012 story. Here’s an overview of this year’s scab scenario, by region. [Read more..]

Fusarium Head Blight in 2011: An Overview

Several states experienced low to virtually non-existent problems with Fusarium Head Blight (scab) during the 2011 U.S. small grains production season, while a few others incurred significant disease incidence and crop loss. As always, growing season weather played a large role in the disease’s status; but so too, on an expanding basis, has the use of FHB management tools like varietal selection, fungicide applications and crop rotation.

A recent survey by the U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative (USWBSI) of university specialists in several states tells the story. [Read more..]

Fusarium Head Blight in 2010: An Overview

The incidence and severity of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) during the 2010 U.S. small grains production season was - when summarized across the major wheat and barley growing areas - fairly low.

Yet ‘hot spots’ did develop in various states, according to a recent U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative (USWBSI) survey of university small grains specialists. [Read more..]

USWBSI Co-Chair Outlines Initiative's Recent Progress & Current Challenges

For the farmer currently confronting Fusarium Head Blight (scab) in his fields, "incremental progress" in research aimed at understanding and controlling this disease may seem a rather empty term. The same goes for the miller or exporter faced with unacceptable levels of vomitoxin/DON in wheat or barley coming to market.

But in the real world of production agriculture, where "silver bullet" solutions to serious problems seldom exist, steady incremental progress is a good thing. It means there´s movement in the right direction, and it implies a continued chipping away at scab´s detrimental impact on affected wheat and barley producers and buyers. [Read more..]

VIGS System Promises to Hasten Development of Varieties Resistant to Fusarium Head Blight

VIGS is not the name of a new candy bar. But it does have all the makings of a sweet ingredient in the ongoing effort to control Fusarium Head Blight (scab) in wheat and barley. [Read more..]

Wheat Grower & USWBSI Co-Chair Reflects Upon Scab Initiative´s Origin, Progress & Challenges

Tom Anderson brings a particularly valuable perspective to the campaign against Fusarium Head Blight (scab). First, he´s a Minnesota wheat grower whose own farm has been seriously impacted by this disease. Second, he was instrumental in obtaining initial federal and state of Minnesota funding for scab research in the mid-1990s. And third, he has served as co-chair of the U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative (USWBSI) since the group´s establishment in the latter ´90s. [Read more..]

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If a submitted publication is the result of funding received from USDA-ARS through the USWBSI, acknowledgement of this support must be included in one of the following formats (examples below):

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