Wheat growers aim for disease-free crop

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REMEMBER 2009? It rained all spring. And as Carl Bradley recalls, 2009 was a really, really bad year for scab. Really. "It hit growers in southern Illinois pretty badly. Some of them ended up being stuck with their grain—DON levels were so high thatsome farmers just had grain rejected at the elevator and couldn't sell it," says Bradley, a University of Illinois plant pathologist with farming roots in Gallatin County.