Midwestern corn growers know the symptoms of northern corn leaf blight all too well: greenish-gray lesions on the leaves that can add up to major yield losses if not detected and treated early. Corn ...

Farmers in west-central Illinois and beyond are having to deal with an increased level of fungal diseases on corn plants thanks to high heat and humidity during the summer.

Disease pressure is building in many Illinois corn fields this week, according to Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist and owner of Crop-Tech Consulting, Heyworth, Ill. Northern corn leaf blight ...

Cornell Cooperative Extension’s SWNY Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Program is working with Cornell University officials to prevent northern corn leaf blight. In 2019, northern corn leaf blight ...

Some destructive events are so monumental that we never forget the fear. For farmers and those involved in hybrid seed production, such a time came when blight blew across the Corn Belt in the summer ...

Tar spot is a relatively new disease to the Dakotas and this year has become more widespread. But in South Dakota, the worst disease to control in the corn has been southern rust.

Corn growth stages are quite variable across Indiana but a number of areas have moved into tasseling or beyond. Therefore, it is time to continue to monitoring for diseases to make an informed ...

Recent rains and increased humidity across Indiana have increased the risk for foliar diseases to develop in both corn and soybean. Much of the corn throughout the state has begun to tassel and ...

Researchers have found a specific gene in corn that appears to be associated with resistance to two and possibly three different plant leaf diseases. Researchers at North Carolina State University ...

Nobody really knows how the fungus Bipolaris maydis got into the cornfields of the United States. But by summer of 1970, it was there with a vengeance, inflicting a disease called southern corn leaf ...

There are several leaf diseases that can infect corn in Kansas in any given year. They can all be controlled with some combination of hybrid selection, tillage management, crop rotation, planting ...