Many crops throughout the Northern Plains saw increased disease pressure during this past year due to early rains. “We definitely saw more wheat diseases this year than in the last five years, but we did a really good job of managing it,” said NDSU Extension Cereal Crop Plant Pathologist Andrew Friskop. Fusarium head blight was one headache. “Twenty-five percent of the fields this year noted scabbing or fusarium head blight, which was a considerable increase.”
