Wheat leaf rust, stripe rust in Texas
4/22/2024 3:45:15 PM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
AFFECTED AREAS:
Texas
Archer County, TX
Atascosa County, TX
Baylor County, TX
Bell County, TX
Bosque County, TX
Brooks County, TX
Cameron County, TX
Childress County, TX
Clay County, TX
Comanche County, TX
Coryell County, TX
Cottle County, TX
Dickens County, TX
Dimmit County, TX
Duval County, TX
Eastland County, TX
Ellis County, TX
Erath County, TX
Falls County, TX
Foard County, TX
Freestone County, TX
Frio County, TX
Hamilton County, TX
Hardeman County, TX
Haskell County, TX
Hidalgo County, TX
Hill County, TX
Hood County, TX
Jack County, TX
Jim Hogg County, TX
Jim Wells County, TX
Johnson County, TX
Kenedy County, TX
Kent County, TX
King County, TX
Kleberg County, TX
Knox County, TX
La Salle County, TX
Leon County, TX
Limestone County, TX
Live Oak County, TX
Maverick County, TX
McLennan County, TX
McMullen County, TX
Castroville, TX
Milam County, TX
Montague County, TX
Motley County, TX
Navarro County, TX
Palo Pinto County, TX
Parker County, TX
Robertson County, TX
Somervell County, TX
Starr County, TX
Stephens County, TX
Stonewall County, TX
Throckmorton County, TX
Webb County, TX
Wichita County, TX
Wilbarger County, TX
Willacy County, TX
Williamson County, TX
Wise County, TX
Young County, TX
Zapata County, TX
Zavala County, TX
Start Date: 4/16/2024
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Years of drought, recent rainfall, combined with warm winter temperatures, have created good conditions for the widespread development of stripe rust in Texas.
“Stripe rust is extensive this year, and we’ve been seeing it in our wheat trial plots and in producers’ fields for the past few weeks,” said an AgriLife Extension statewide small grains specialist in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Bryan-College Station. “Leaf rust came on a little later but has not been as widespread as the stripe rust.”
AgriLife Today (College Station, Texas), April 16, 2024
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