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The best time to minimize the potential for stored grain insects is before the grain is in the bin. A thorough cleaning of the bin prior to filling is the best method to reduce any small populations of stored grain insects that may become a problem l ... http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/faq7563
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- grasshoppers and Insect Life Cycle
Population size is primarily determined by weather. Outbreaks are usually preceded by two to three years with hot, dry summers and open falls. Dry weather increases the probability of egg survival, hastens spring hatch, and promotes nymphal developme ... http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex3497
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- The Black Stem Rust
Photographs and information on Puccinia graminis which affects wheat, barley and other grasses. The fungus exists in a number of forms which are specific to the host plant attacked. In Europe P. graminis f.sp. tritici affects wheat P. graminis f.sp.s ... http://www.hgca.com/hgca/wde/diseases/BSRust/Bsruhost.html
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- The Green Bug
The greenbug feeds on cereals and forage grasses. Latesown oats, barley, fall rye and wheat are usually susceptible when this aphid is abundant, although in one year the greatest injury was to earlyseeded fields of winter cereals. Timothy grown for f ... http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/prm2498
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- The Brown Rust
Symptoms of brown rust infection are often seen in the autumn on early sown crops as individual orange to brown pustules. With early autumn infection individual pustules are frequently confused with yellow rust, being orange to brown and about 1 mm i ... http://www.hgca.com/hgca/wde/diseases/Brown%20rust/Brhost.html
| | - Chinch Bug
The life cycle and control of the chinch bug is discussed, with descriptions of possible management options. The chinch bug is a native North American insect that can destroy cultivated grass crops, especially sorghum and corn, and occasionally small ... http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/pages/publicationD.jsp?publicationId=51...
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- The Cereal Aphids
Identification and general discussion of the cereal aphid species most commonly found in Nebraska small grains, corn, sorghum and millet. Cereal aphids can be a serious threat to several Nebraska crops. Aphid feeding may cause direct damage to the p ... http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/pages/publicationD.jsp?publicationId=34...
| | - Diseases of Barley
Barley, rye, and triticale are cereal crops grown in Alabama either as a winter grain or as winter grazing. This publication summarizes the major diseases and control measures of these crops that are commonly found in the state. Information on root a ... http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0903/
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- The Yellow Rust
The characteristic symptom is of parallel rows of yellowish orange coloured pustules on the leaves of adult plants. epidemics of yellow rust often start as individual plants showing symptoms, usually in the autumn. These usually develop slowly over w ... http://www.hgca.com/hgca/wde/diseases/Yellow%20rust/Yrhost.html
| | - Biology and Control of Take Disease
The takeall fungus, Gaeumannomyces graminis ascomycota, is a major rootrot pathogen of cereals and grasses. It is most damaging to intensively grown wheat and barley crops, when the same crop is grown year after year in a site. It survives in the in ... http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/jdeacon/microbes/takeall.htm
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