REGINA — For about three weeks every summer, roughly 15 people walk the wheat Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) nursery plots at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research farms in Saskatchewan. Five or six are scientists. They are assessing FHB, a fungal disease that is common in Saskatchewan and damaging to wheat, plot by plot and spike by spike, assigning a severity percentage as they go. Then they come back the next morning and do it again. It i…
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