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 ...

ST. PAUL -- Corn producers in Minnesota have historically had few widespread and significant problems with leaf diseases, in contrast to most major Midwestern corn-producing states. A leaf and stalk ...

AMES, Iowa – A plant pathologist at Iowa State University is studying an emergent corn disease capable of reducing the yields of affected crops to near zero. Virtually unseen in the United States for ...

As Caleb Hamer evaluated his corn last weekend, he says the crop looked like it flipped a switch and decided it was done growing for the season. “Between the southern rust, some tar spot, and I think ...

As Ken Ferrie travels through parts of central Illinois this week, he sees a corn crop that has changed radically in the past seven days. “Disease pressure is bringing fields to their knees, and a lot ...

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 ...

WYOMING, Iowa — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other ...

A fungal disease is spreading across corn fields in the U.S. Midwest, threatening this year’s crop. Analysts say the fungal disease is reducing what had been forecast to be a record corn crop, and is ...

For most of the summer, Julie Gerano didn’t think much of the cornstalk growing in the flower bed of her backyard garden in Kiski Township. Now, however, Gerano, 51, is looking at a potential world ...

Pesky infestations of tar spot disease are expected to put another dent in farmers’ yields across the Midwest, according to a team of scientists that specializes in crop pathology. Tar spot is ...