Survival Homestead

Editorial: Cuts threaten a key food supply sentry
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - May 9, 2008
At the same time, a frightening new strain of wheat stem rust known as Ug99 has emerged. It has not yet been detected in the United States, but has ravaged …

Food fears
Vancouver Courier,  Canada - May 9, 2008
Science Daily reports that a strain named Ug99 has reappeared in Africa, and wind has carried spores to the Middle East. Ug99 is reportedly set to hit the …

New Disease Threatens Global Wheat Supplies
theTrumpet.com, OK - May 7, 2008
The fungus, Ug99, first discovered in Uganda in 1999, is known as African rust and is highly lethal for wheat crops. Unlike many other crop diseases that …

NAWG: Ug99 Puts Lives, Food Security In Danger
AgWeb - May 5, 2008
Ug99, named such because it was first discovered in Uganda in 1999, is a race of stem rust, a disease that infects the vascular tissues of wheat plants. …

Minds rest easier with grain storages
Edmond Sun, OK - Apr 30, 2008
I heard a radio host mention a virulent type of wheat fungus that started nine years ago in Uganda, UG99, and has spread to other wheat-producing nations in …