As corn planting looms, the dread of disease pressures may be occupying producers’ thoughts. Some of the pesky problems in these parts are relatively new to the headache list, including Tar Spot, ...

Gray leaf spot is also active in the lower canopy at multiple sites across the state. The lesions are light tan in color and generally narrow and rectangular, and can be as long as 2 inches. As the ...

Winter means absolutely nothing for southern rust. It overwinters in the tropics, moving back into the Corn Belt during ...

Gray leaf spot is a widespread fungal disease in corn, responsible for a 23-million-bushel yield loss in the U.S. in 2024. 1 The challenge with controlling gray leaf spot isn’t just deciding whether ...

Severe lodging of a corn field during September in Saunders County, Nebraska. Editor’s note: The following was written by Tamra Jackson-Ziems, University of Nebraska Extension plant pathologist, Jenny ...

WATERTOWN, S.D. — Across most of South Dakota, corn diseases have been worse than normal this year. Madalyn Shires, assistant professor and SDSU Extension plant pathology specialist, hosted a field ...

There’s still time to get the plant health™ benefits of Headline® fungicide on corn by preventing the worst diseases. The fact is that even the lowest level of disease drains yield from your fields.

The old adage "knee high by the Fourth of July" has been used to describe corn growth for years. A more modern version would be "knee high by the Fourth of June, and tasseling by the Fourth of July." ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JOPLIN, Mo. (KSNF) — A fungal disease ...

We are starting to get some reports of early season diseases showing up in corn this year. Diseases are heavily determined by environmental conditions, plant susceptibility, diseases present and field ...