Wheat afflicted by wheat streak mosaic virus in Kansas, neighboring states
6/6/2025 12:00:00 AM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
AFFECTED AREAS:
Baca County, CO
Bent County, CO
Cheyenne County, CO
Crowley County, CO
Kiowa County, CO
Kit Carson County, CO
Las Animas County, CO
Lincoln County, CO
Logan County, CO
Morgan County, CO
Otero County, CO
Phillips County, CO
Prowers County, CO
Sedgwick County, CO
Washington County, CO
Yuma County, CO
Allen County, KS
Anderson County, KS
Atchison County, KS
Barber County, KS
Barton County, KS
Bourbon County, KS
Brown County, KS
Butler County, KS
Chase County, KS
Chautauqua County, KS
Cherokee County, KS
Cheyenne County, KS
Clark County, KS
Clay County, KS
Cloud County, KS
Coffey County, KS
Comanche County, KS
Cowley County, KS
Crawford County, KS
Decatur County, KS
Dickinson County, KS
Doniphan County, KS
Douglas County, KS
Edwards County, KS
Elk County, KS
Ellis County, KS
Ellsworth County, KS
Finney County, KS
Ford County, KS
Franklin County, KS
Geary County, KS
Gove County, KS
Graham County, KS
Grant County, KS
Gray County, KS
Greeley County, KS
Greenwood County, KS
Hamilton County, KS
Harper County, KS
Harvey County, KS
Haskell County, KS
Hodgeman County, KS
Jackson County, KS
Jefferson County, KS
Jewell County, KS
Johnson County, KS
Kearny County, KS
Kingman County, KS
Kiowa County, KS
Labette County, KS
Lane County, KS
Healy, KS
Leavenworth County, KS
Lincoln County, KS
Linn County, KS
Logan County, KS
Lyon County, KS
Marion County, KS
Marshall County, KS
McPherson County, KS
Meade County, KS
Miami County, KS
Mitchell County, KS
Montgomery County, KS
Morris County, KS
Morton County, KS
Nemaha County, KS
Neosho County, KS
Ness County, KS
Norton County, KS
Osage County, KS
Osborne County, KS
Ottawa County, KS
Pawnee County, KS
Phillips County, KS
Pottawatomie County, KS
Pratt County, KS
Rawlins County, KS
Reno County, KS
Republic County, KS
Rice County, KS
Riley County, KS
Rooks County, KS
Rush County, KS
Russell County, KS
Saline County, KS
Scott County, KS
Sedgwick County, KS
Seward County, KS
Shawnee County, KS
Sheridan County, KS
Sherman County, KS
Smith County, KS
Stafford County, KS
Stanton County, KS
Stevens County, KS
Sumner County, KS
Thomas County, KS
Trego County, KS
Wabaunsee County, KS
Wallace County, KS
Washington County, KS
Wichita County, KS
Wilson County, KS
Woodson County, KS
Wyandotte County, KS
Nebraska
Adams County, NE
Chase County, NE
Clay County, NE
Dundy County, NE
Fillmore County, NE
Franklin County, NE
Frontier County, NE
Furnas County, NE
Gage County, NE
Gosper County, NE
Harlan County, NE
Hayes County, NE
Hitchcock County, NE
Jefferson County, NE
Johnson County, NE
Kearney County, NE
Nemaha County, NE
Nuckolls County, NE
Pawnee County, NE
Phelps County, NE
Red Willow County, NE
Richardson County, NE
Saline County, NE
Thayer County, NE
Webster County, NE
Oklahoma
Alfalfa County, OK
Beaver County, OK
Cimarron County, OK
Craig County, OK
Delaware County, OK
Ellis County, OK
Garfield County, OK
Grant County, OK
Harper County, OK
Kay County, OK
Major County, OK
Mayes County, OK
Noble County, OK
Nowata County, OK
Osage County, OK
Ottawa County, OK
Pawnee County, OK
Rogers County, OK
Texas County, OK
Tulsa County, OK
Washington County, OK
Woods County, OK
Woodward County, OK
Start Date: 6/5/2025
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Three mosaic viruses coupled combined with ongoing drought stress stunted wheat fields and turned them yellow in an unprecedented largescale outbreak this spring. Wheat in eastern Colorado, southern Nebraska, Kansas, and northern Oklahoma were stricken.
AgUpdate (Tekamah, Neb.), June 5, 2025
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