Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
A survey of wheat fields in southeast, south central, and southwest Nebraska showed severe levels of stripe rust. In some fields, 100 percent of foliage was yellow and covered with rust pustules, with only the stems and heads retaining green color. In some fields rust had advanced to the [late] stage where teleospores form.
Many of the fields with severe stripe rust were not sprayed with fungicide or were sprayed too late. Further west and north, stripe rust was not as severe as in the
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