Foliar symptoms closely resemble those of other foliar diseases of corn, making field diagnosis difficult. After the V6 stage the foliar phase of the disease can be greatly reduced in some hybrids ...

Scouts should pay particular attention to the lower three leaves of the corn plant from the period just before tasseling to two weeks after tasseling. If at least 50% of plants in a field have disease ...

“A small fraction of the field corn we grow goes to actual food products ... but costly. PRRS has been a disease pork producers continue to battle, and it’s been devastating to hog operations ...

But the disease was nearly a no-show ... about four years to completely digest a corn stalk, most likely there’s tar spot inoculant in about every field that was infected in 2021,” he contends.

Pest management experts are closely monitoring the spread of corn leafhoppers in agricultural producing regions across the state. Corn leafhoppers, invasive herbivorous insects, are capable of ...