Other Plant Disease -- United States
This year's [2017] outbreak of wheat streak mosaic virus in Kansas was the worst since 2006, according to Kansas State University. The disease also struck parts of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Colorado [in the] US Plains [region]. Kansas could face hefty yield losses from a virus that cost it nearly 6 per cent of production, valued at USD 76.8 million.
The virus is spread by mites that thrive on "volunteer wheat" that sprout from kernels left after harvest. Farmers need to kill those plants with
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2wySVhD
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