Ergot disease spreading to other crops

WORLAND – “I kind of started noticing this stuff in the grass about two years ago, but I wasn’t sure what it was” says Bill Wilson, inspecting his sorghum plants north of Worland. “Now it’s everywhere.”

This year, Wilson first noticed the ergot kernels invading his sorghum buds about a week ago.

“There used to be barley farming all around me out here, and that burning, but they’ve pretty much rota...