Candace Krebs
The Ag Journal
Much needed moisture is coming too late for drought-stricken wheat in parts of Colorado, but farmers who still have good crop prospects are on heightened alert for foliar diseases after a week-long stint of rainy weather.
Crop scouts attending the Wheat Quality Council Hard Red Winter Wheat Tour discussed those and other developments at the first stop of a three-day swing through Kansas and surrounding states Tuesday evening.
The tour concludes Thursday in Manhattan.
Sarah Ahrens, promotion coordinator for Nebraska Wheat, reported that stripe rust has migrated north into her state, even though overall subsoil moisture levels remain drier than normal.