Wheat Head Scab-Early Reports Indicate Low Year

Early report from southern Ohio found low levels of head scab in wheat. (See Crop Observation and Recommendation Network Newsletter 2009-18). Early scouting from Northwest Ohio are showing the same. Report from Putnam and VanWert indicate levels less than 3%. Scouting two Fulton County fields yield a 0% rating. One field had a few scattered heads that did not show up in random survey stops and the second field was a true zero with not any scabby heads seen. I will be scouting a few more fields next week.

As far as any other diseases the first field was very clean. The second field did show have some rust and also a physiological burn on the flag leaf. The lower canopy of the field also had stagnospora lesion but this never progressed to the flag leaf.