EARLY SEASON FUNGICIDE ON WHEAT
Information for this article was written by Andrew Friskop from NDSU Extension Plant Pathology. The complete article is located at https://bit.ly/4vm5mHP.
Cereal crops residue-borne diseases such as tan spot and Stagonospora nodorum blotch (SNB) are the primary targets for early-season fungicide application. Tan spot is more common than SNB in North Dakota (ND), but both diseases have shown a downward trend in prevalence in ND wheat fields over the past eight years. This can be largely attributed to the use of management tools such as crop rotation (has been sho...