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AMBA: About |
 | | AMBA make grants averaging $700,000 per year to state and federal research facilities for the support of malting barley research programs in ten states: California, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. |
 | | AMBA is also providing support to North Dakota State University to develop two-row malting barley varieties for Midwest production and use by the domestic brewing industry and the malt export market. |
 | | AMBA has effective programs in place to counter current significant threats to the barley crop such as Fusarium head blight (scab), stripe rust, and the Russian Wheat Aphid. |
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