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It’s hard to walk in a wheat field in Kansas right now and not find at least low-level, trace-level symptoms of WSMV, and ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Wheat farmers in Kansas are facing one of the worst Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (WSMV) outbreaks in years.

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Low crop price for wheat is compounded by a spike in disease pressure in west-central Kansas, Vance Ehmke reports.