ApocaDocs: Yellow Rust Damages Crops in the Middle East

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Posted Tue Jul 6 2010: from NASA:


	Yellow Rust Damages Crops in the Middle East http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1278447586 After two years of crippling drought, things were starting to look up in the Middle East. The winter of 2009-2010 brought ample rain and warm temperatures to wheat-growing regions in northern Syria and Iraq and southern Turkey. A bumper crop seemed to be on the horizon. But the conditions that were good for plants were also good for plant diseases, and a severe infection of yellow rust developed.... Yellow rust does more than advance the timing of plant growth. As much as 50 percent of an infected wheat crop can be lost, and in severe cases, the entire crop may be lost, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service. In 2010, Syria anticipated a harvest 35 percent smaller than what it would have been without yellow rust.

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'Doc Michael says:

Sadly, there are no Brillo pads for wheat.