Wheat in the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Southern Maryland on the west of shore is finishing up flowering. If your wheat has flowered already, you have likely escaped FHB risk successfully this year. Wheat in the Northern parts (Frederick, Carroll and Harford counties) is either flowering/ will soon start flowering. The FHB risk the state is predicted to be low currently and in the next couple of days to come. If your wheat is yet to flower within this week or the next, keep an eye on the FHB forecasts. I will post updated risk commentaries, if things change over the next week.

--Nidhi Rawat, Small Grains Pathologist, University of Maryland