Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
Septoria disease in winter wheat is at the worst levels in living memory, which should put growers on alert. The disease has been encouraged by the absence of a cold, frosty winter and the recent wet weather.
Fiona Burnett, Scottish Rural College (SRUC), warns that crops look worse than in the bad septoria year of 2012. She says the disease is normally present on the lower leaves of the wheat crop, but it is very unusual to see it on the upper leaves at this stage of the season. The danger
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