Yellow rust ‘thriving’
PA Gore i Yellow rust, a cereal crop: disease known to cut wheat! yields up to 50 per cent, is; beginning to thrive in the! Otama Valley-Willowbank j area near Gore. • The fivst signs of the dis-1 ease became apparent someweeks ago and it has now; spread to six farms, affect-; ling 90ha of wheat. ' The presence of the dis-; ease in New Zealand had; ■been expected for the last; | year after it devastated Aus-’
i tralian wheat crops. As yet : the trouble is known only in i the Gore district, although it iis expected to be found in ■other areas in due course. I Most of the crops so far ! affected in the Gore area were autumn sown but the ! rust is spreading quickly i and crops sown in the (spring are expected to be (affected. ; Farmers in the district II have now been advised to ;I inspect their crops at least •'twice a week.
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Press, 24 December 1980, Page 5
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