Moderate Stripe Rust Forecast for 2023
Dr. Xianming Chen’s (USDA-ARS Plant Pathologist) March 10, 2023, stripe rust forecast says that stripe rust will be in the moderate range for the 2023 growing season.
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The 2022-2023 Research Progress Reports and the 2022 WSU Weed Control Report are now available on the Wheat and Small Grains website.
First Stripe Forecast of the 2023 Season
Dr. Xianming Chen, USDA-ARS plant pathologist, is predicting stripe rust severity to be in the lower range of a moderate epidemic in his first forecast for the 2023 growing season released January 10. These predictions…
Stripe Rust Update June 2, 2022
By Dr. Xianming Chen. Stripe Rust in the Palouse Region Yesterday, I was checking fields in the Palouse region (Whitman County, WA and Latah County, ID). Winter wheat ranged from Feekes 7 to Feekes…
Stripe Rust Update, April 17, 2022
Stripe Rust in the Pacific Northwest By Dr. Xianming Chen On April 13 and 14, we were planting spring cereal nurseries and taking the first notes of the winter nurseries at Mount Vernon, Washington. The…
Stripe Rust Forecast and Update, March 7, 2022
By Dr. Xianming Chen Stripe rust is forecasted to be in the moderate epidemic level in the eastern Pacific Northwest Based on the predication models using the weather data from November to February, wheat stripe…
Stripe Rust Update, May 5, 2020
By Dr. Xianming Chen Stripe Rust Appears in the Palouse Region Today, I was checking stripe rust in our winter wheat experimental fields around Pullman (Whitman County in Washington) and found stripe rust on susceptible…
Stripe Rust Update, April 22, 2020
By Dr. Xianming Chen Stripe Rust in Eastern Pacific Northwest Yesterday, I was checking wheat fields in Whitman, Adams, Lincoln, Grant, and Douglas counties in Washington. Winter wheat ranged from Feekes 4 to 7. Minor…
Top Dress Micronutrients for Optimum Wheat Production
It is time to think about top dressing wheat, but not only with nitrogen. There are other nutrients, which can be very beneficial to crop production. Most soils of Eastern Washington are deficient in some…
Stripe Rust Forecast and Update, March 1, 2020
By Dr. Xianming Chen Stripe rust is forecasted to be in severe epidemic level in the eastern Pacific Northwest Based on the predication models using the weather data from November 1, 2019 to February 29,…
Stripe Rust Update April 18, 2019
Stripe Rust Found in Walla Walla Area. Yesterday, we were checking wheat fields in Whitman, Lincoln, Douglas, Grant, Adams, Franklin, Benton, and Walla Walla counties of Washington. Winter wheat crops ranged from Feekes 3 to 6. No rust was found in any commercial fields in these counties.
Stripe Rust Forecast and Update, March 22, 2019
Xianming Chen Stripe rust will be likely low this year in the eastern Pacific Northwest This unusual winter appears over, and spring comes late but suddenly. Based on the forecast models, we predict that stripe rust will potentially cause yield loss of 16% on highly susceptible varieties. This level is much lower than the 38%…
2019 First Stripe Rust Forecast and 2018 Fungicide and Variety Yield Loss Tests
January 8, 2019 Xianming Chen A. Field survey in November 2018 On November 16, 2018, our crew was checking winter wheat fields in Whitman, Lincoln, Adams, Grant, and Douglas counties in eastern Washington and found two leaves with stripe rust (Figure 1) in only one field in Grant County near the border with Lincoln County.…