Scab Smart Web Site Can Help With Head Scab Management

The U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative (UWBSI) has a Web site that provides farmers with information on how to manage Fusarium head blight, commonly known as scab.

Scab Smart is designed to serve as a quick guide to the integrated strategies that result in optimum reduction of scab and its primary associated mycotoxin, deoxynivalenol (DON).

On the site, producers can access information by management strategy or wheat class. Scab Smart’s content will be updated on an ongoing basis as new management information becomes available.

The group has previously reported that infections of scab have reached worrisome levels in several Southern soft winter wheat states due to wet weather.

The new tool is accessible through this link.