The Fusarium Head Blight Prediction Center is now active for the 2022 growing season. These tools provide daily estimates of disease risk for wheat and barley in 35 states. Please note that the colors showing the different levels of disease risk changed this year. The lowest level of disease risk is now represented as yellow on the risk map. Moderate and high levels of risk are represented orange and red, respectively.

Tips of using the tool: The tool shows the disease risk for susceptible wheat varieties for todays date. You can select earlier assessment dates by clicking on the calendar menu at the top of the risk map. Use the menu button on the upper left to active risk maps for wheat varieties with other levels of genetic resistance to Fusarium head blight.

The risk maps based on 2, 4 or 6 days of forecasted weather are currently inactive within the tool. These features should be available soon.

--Erick DeWolf, Plant Pathologist, Kansas State University