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Tan Spot of Wheat

Written collaboratively by Collins Bugingo, Emmanuel Byamukama, former SDSU Extension Plant Pathologist, and Shaukat Ali.

Tan spot is a devastating disease of wheat in South Dakota and the rest of the wheat producing regions world over. It causes an estimated yield loss of about 5 percent in South Dakota but this loss can go up to 30 percent in individual fields.