Kansas Phytopathological Notes: 1969

Weather Conditions Disease development is closely associated with environmental factors, especially moisture and temperature. Therefore, weather data are helpful in understanding many disease situations. Conditions were dry particularly in western and central Kansas during April. In May and June timely rains favored crops so that a bumper wheat crop of 305 million bushels was harvested. Weather was raier dry during July but rains came in August and September to the extent that wheat seeding was delayed in western Kansas. The fall months were unusually cold so that the late seeded wheat was small during the winter of 1969-70.