Collecting and submitting wheat grain samples as part of the National Karnal Bunt survey is necessary to continue the export of Kansas wheat.

Wheat samples will be taken on a three-year rotation in counties with over 1 million bushels of wheat from grain storage facilities. Every 3 years, samples will have been taken from the wheat producing counties of the state. Harvest acreage numbers for the year will be rechecked every 3 years. There is one four-pound sample taken for 1 million bushels per county. Funded by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Kansas Department of Agriculture has been conducting a thousand cankers disease, or more specifically a survey for the fungal disease vector, walnut twig beetle. Our walnut twig beetle survey is funded by United States Department of Agriculture-Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service’s Plant Protection Act Section 7721 Funding.

Walnut twig beetle surveys involve the implementation of a species-specific pheromone baited Lindgren funnel trap.

In 2022, Kansas Department of Agriculture will continue its walnut twig beetle survey in Kansas.

This survey will take place at shipping hubs, such as container storage and transfer yards, inland ports, rail depots and rail yards and parks which have suitable hosts which are a pathway for exotic plant pests that could be introduced and establish.

The survey will entail trapping 65 locations. Twenty-four of the 65 will have the oak pest traps included in the trapping. Pests to be surveyed for are:  Asian gypsy moth, Hokkaido gypsy moth, Japanese gypsy moth, Okinawa gypsy moth and White-winged gypsy moth, nun moth, and rosy moth.  The 24 locations containing oak will also be surveyed for oak ambrosia beetle and oak processionary moth.  At every location and within the county, Tree of Heaven will also be surveyed for.

This detection survey will gathered data to determine the status of the Australian grapevine yellows, cotton cutworm, bud borer and alfalfa cyst nematode.  

There were seventy-one sites in twenty-eight counties surveyed.  Counties to be surveyed: Barton, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hamilton, Jewell, Kearney, Lincoln, Marion, McPherson, Mitchell, Norton, Ottawa, Pawnee, Phillips, Pottawatomie, Rawlins, Reno, Republic, Rice, Saline, Sedgwick, Smith, Stafford, Washington. Funded by the United States Department of Agriculture.

One positive for alfalfa cyst nematode in Finney county and no other target pests found.

Continued trapping efforts, especially in highly populated areas.  On 10/12/20, BMSB was detected in Leavenworth county.  Previous detections include Johnson and Shawnee counties.  Traps were set in Bourbon, Franklin and Riley counties. Riley had a new detection. Funded by the Kansas Department of Agriculture.

We are continuing to survey with girdled trap trees that are girdled in the spring and the bark peeled in the fall/winter in counties where EAB has not been found.  No EAB was found.  Funded by the Kansas Department of Agriculture.

Continuing trapping efforts at exporting nurseries and other high-risk locations. KDA staff placed traps in Decatur, Graham, Norton and Sheridan counties.  None were found. Funded by the Kansas Department of Agriculture.

• 26 western counties
• 107 samples planned, 109 taken
• Sampling occurred June 28 – July 9, 2021
• No karnal bunt found

• 130 Samples
• 26 sites (box stores)
• Survey began May 17, 2021
• Ended June 1, 2021
• No Phytophthora ramorum found
• Hosts included roses

• 109 fields of wheat and 25 fields of sorghum in 28 southern counties – One site for every 25,000 acres of wheat and sorghum
• April to June for wheat
• June to October for sorghum
• Trapping – Egyptian Cottonworm (Spodoptera littoralis), Old World Bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera), Small brown planthopper (Laodelphax striatellus)
• Visual - Sunn pest and wheat blast
• Started April 26, 2021
• Ended October 13, 2021
• No target pests found

• 46 western counties, 64 locations
• Started May 25, 2021
• Ended August 4, 2021
• No walnut twig beetle found