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STRATEGY A featured segment designed to share business- critical information to seed-selling professionals. Visit SeedWorld.com to download this department and other tools to help you sell seed to farmers. Discover the Products that Protect Cereal Seed While wheat and other cereals might not drive farm profits like corn and soybeans there are products that can help to drive up yields which is especially important in todays farm economy when every bushel counts. A MAJOR SOURCE of income for U.S. farmers wheat ranks third among field crops in both planted acreage and gross farm receipts accord- ing to the U.S. Department of Agricultures Economic Research Service. This year farmers have planted more than 54 million acres of wheat be it hard red winter hard red spring soft red winter white or durum. Its not only an important crop in the United States but a staple around the world. No other crop has as much land dedicated to it. Wheat yields have continuously increased in the past decades and in some production areas one acre of land supplies enough flour to make 3744 loaves of bread. Even so the rate of yield increase isnt enough to keep up with demand. As a result wheat is frequently in short supply on the global market. One of the biggest chal- lenges wheat farmers are faced with is how to best cope with the ever-increasing array of diseases fungi and insects and each year brings about new challenges or different challenges. Stephen Wegulo a University of Nebraska plant pathologist says wheat seed treatments are especially important in 2015. This year he said it was especially important to use fungicide-treated seed because there was a wide- spread epidemic of Fusarium head blight. The scab fungus infects and stays in the grain resulting in shriveled chalky white or pinkish kernels known as Fusarium-damaged kernels scabby kernels or tomb- stones Wegulo explains. Kernels infected in later stages of development contain the fungus but look normal. If Fusarium-infected grain is not treated with a fungicide and is used as seed for the next crop stand establishment can be significantly reduced. Other diseases that wheat falls susceptible to include common bunt loose smut flag smut black point and ergot. Wegulo says these diseases can cause varying levels of 28 SEEDWORLD.COM OCTOBER 2015 The bright yellow of wheat leaves infected with barley yellow dwarf virus contrasts sharply with the deep green of normal healthy wheat. PHOTOUSDA-ARS.