A producer noticed discoloration in his oats and called the local Purdue Extension office for advice. The oats were planted as a cover crop to be used as forage, so we contacted Dr. Keith Johnson, the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.-- It's been an ongoing battle for years in Minnesota: The fight against invasive buckthorn. You may have seen efforts to get goats to eat the stuff. Now, researchers are looking to ...

Scientists are tapping into the DNA of a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to see if it can help combat crown rust, the most damaging fungal disease of oats worldwide. Agricultural ...

People fight buckthorn with everything. They cut them with chain saws, yank out the seedlings, douse stumps with Roundup, imprison them under coffee cans and shovel out the roots. They sic goats on ...

Farmers are urged to mow fields infected with crown rust to get on top of the fungus that is infecting many farms. Many grass fields across the southern half of Britain have become infested with crown ...

The global significance of oat as a cereal crop is accompanied by an urgent need to safeguard yield and quality against destructive fungal diseases such as crown rust and powdery mildew. Recent ...

Crown rust infection is threatening grass quality, particularly as unseasonably warm weather continues to dominate. The warning comes as sites across the UK have already witnessed the development of ...

This release is available in Spanish. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are tapping into the DNA of a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to see if it can help combat crown ...